On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 04:29:34AM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> > This patch introduces a "stat_validity" struct which
> > encapsulates the concept of checking the stat-freshness of a
> > file. It is implemented on top of "struct cache_entry" to
> > reuse the logic about which stat entries to
On 05/07/2013 04:39 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> It can sometimes be useful to know whether a path in the
> filesystem has been updated without going to the work of
> opening and re-reading its content. We trust the stat()
> information on disk already to handle index updates, and we
> can use the same t
It can sometimes be useful to know whether a path in the
filesystem has been updated without going to the work of
opening and re-reading its content. We trust the stat()
information on disk already to handle index updates, and we
can use the same trick here.
This patch introduces a "stat_validity"
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