On Feb 17 13:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 13 04:30, Eric Blake wrote: > > I see the new has_changed flag in the 20050211 snapshot. But you still > > have to > > add a call to touch_ctime() within the stat() family of calls if > > has_changed is > > set, in order to comply with the required semantics; stat and lstat are not > > allowed to return out-of-date timestamps. > > You know that this contradicts the target to maintain speed on write? > It's not done with adding a call to touch_ctime() to fstat, because > that only affects the application which also has written to the file. > If I read SUSv3 correctly, any call to stat/fstat/lstat on the file > by any application would require to update the timestamp. That's no > fun. I'm willing to simply ignore this.
I've called touch_ctime in fstat nevertheless. It's a first approximation. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
