Bernhard Voelker wrote:
So regarding gnulib, there are 2 alternatives:
a) rename FTS_NOATIME to FTS_NOATIME, and add a retry to open/openat
in each place when that was using O_NOATIME and we got EPERM.
I didn't quite get the point of the rename; those two identifiers look identical
to me.
T
Re-reading the text I wrote, I see that some critical words were missing:
> Reserving the option doesn't seem especially helpful, either
I meant, reserving the option as being for use only by the root user (for
whom one might imagine the EPERM issue would not arise) does not seem
especially helpf
On 9/29/18 9:30 AM, James Youngman wrote:
> Having a "don't update atime" option that only works sometimes (when I
> own the directory) seems problematic to me.
>
> If the user specifies the "keep access time unchanged" option and we
> can't honour it (because there is at least one directory that
Having a "don't update atime" option that only works sometimes (when I
own the directory) seems problematic to me.
If the user specifies the "keep access time unchanged" option and we
can't honour it (because there is at least one directory that they
don't own) what should we do?
We can't simply
