Thanks Iain Patterson wrote: > The online documentation for cfengine(2) says that > AccessedBefore(f1,f2) is true if f1's atime is more recent than f2's > atime. It also says that ChangedBefore(f1,f2) is true if f1's ctime is > more recent than f2's ctime. > > In fact AccessedBefore(f1,f2) is true if f2's atime is more recent and > ChangedBefore(f1,f2) is true if f2's ctime is more recent. > > IsNewerThan(f1,f2) behaves as documented. It is true if f2's mtime is > more recent. > > However I suspect that the documentation for the *Before() functions > is incorrect and that the functions themselves behave as intended, while > IsNewerThan() does not behave as intended. Here's why: > > The documentation says that IsGreaterThan(s1,s2) is true if s1 > s2 > and that IsLessThan(s1,s2) is true if s1 < s2. Both these functions > behave as documented. AccessedBefore(f1,f2) actually is true if f1 was > accessed before f2. ChangedBefore(f1,f2) actually is true if f1 was > changed before f2. In each of these cases, the first argument to the > function fits the description provided by the function's name. > > For consistency, therefore, the attached patch changes IsNewerThan() > so that IsNewerThan(f1,f2) is true if f1's mtime is more recent than > f2's mtime. It also changes the documentation for all three file > comparison functions to match the (new) actual behaviour. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-cfengine mailing list > Bug-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
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