Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:12:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:12:09 -0400 Received: from [195.39.17.254] ([195.39.17.254]:39843 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:12:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:17:08 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Morton Cc: Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.18 no timestamp update on modified mmapped files Message-ID: <20020612171708.B87@toy.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <3D059D5E.C9F9F659@zip.com.au> <11378.1023779257@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3D05A6A1.328B7FDE@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > >It is specifically referring to updates via mmap! "a write reference > > >to the mapped region". This is the mmap documentation. > > > > I saw "write reference" and my brain translated that to "write()". I > > blame the long weekend. > > That'll be a left-brain/write-brain thing. > > I think it's too late to fix this in 2.4. If we did, a person > could develop and test an application on 2.4.21, ship it, then > find that it fails on millions of 2.4.17 machines. It is a bug, so it should be fixed. If someone develops on FreeBSD then he'll be surprised it does not work on Linux... Stable should mean "only bugfixes" and this certainly looks like a bug. -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/