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SubjectRe: [patch?] truncate and timestamps

On Fri, 23 May 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
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> 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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