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SubjectRe: [PATCH] splice: update mtime and atime on files
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 08:42:41AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >
> > Splice should update the modification and access times on regular
> > files just like read and write. Not updating mtime will confuse
> > backup tools, etc...
> >
> > This patch only adds the time updates for regular files. For pipes
> > and other special files that splice touches the need for updating the
> > times is less clear. Let's discuss and fix that separately.
>
> Thanks Miklos, I've queued this one up.

wouldn't it make sense to send that to stable too ? The patch is not
intrusive and looks like a fix to me.

Willy



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