Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2003 17:30:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch?] truncate and timestamps |
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On Fri, 23 May 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > On the other hand, my question was really a different one: > do we want to follow POSIX, also in the silly requirement > that truncate only sets mtime when the size changes, while > O_TRUNC and ftruncate always set mtime.
Does POSIX really say that? What a crock. If so, we should probably add the ATTR_xxx mask as an argument to do_truncate() itself, and then make sure that may_open() sets the ATTR_MTIME bit.
Linus
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