Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ext4 features | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:08:55 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 17:04 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > No, I didn't quite mean a manual touch, but a system call to "close and > set time to high resolution" for files where time uniformity is > important. Consider that in most cases the inodes times are set by the > host machine clock, which I close the change reflects the fileserving > host idea of time. If there were a call to close a file and set the > times like touch, then that could be used, for both local and network files.
Close should never update the time since that would be a violation of POSIX rules. Normally, an NFS client will never need to update the time: RPC calls like WRITE, READ and SETATTR will automatically do it for us whenever necessary.
Cheers, Trond
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