Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:46:40 +0100 | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | mtime updates for mmapped files. |
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Hi,
I wrote a small app yesterday that updates a file by mmapping the file (RW), changing the thing around, and then exiting.
This did not trigger a change in the mtime of the file. Thus rsync didn't pick up that the file had changed.
I understand that tracking every change to a RW mmapped file is costly, and thus unfeasable, but shouldn't then the close cause a mtime update?
The server where this happened is running 2.6.21, so my apologies if this has already been corrected.
Roger.
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