On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:03:17 +0800, Dave Young said: > On Jan 16, 2008 5:46 PM, Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I wrote a small app yesterday that updates a file by mmapping the > > file (RW), changing the thing around, and then exiting. > > > > This did not trigger a change in the mtime of the file. Thus rsync > > didn't pick up that the file had changed. > > > > I understand that tracking every change to a RW mmapped file is > > costly, and thus unfeasable, but shouldn't then the close cause a > > mtime update? > > > > The server where this happened is running 2.6.21, so my apologies if > > this has already been corrected. > > This is an old bug, don't know if it was fixed or not. Please see > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/138
If it was fixed, we'd not be having the currently ongoing long thread about how to fix it. :) See also: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/21/242 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/234 (Note the last is the start of the *current* thread...)
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