Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:10:28 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.18 no timestamp update on modified mmapped files |
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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.
Oh, please reconsider that! Doesn't loss of modification time approach data loss? Surely we'll continue to fix any data loss issues in 2.4, and be grateful if you fixed this mmap modtime loss.
Hugh
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