Greg Stein <[email protected]> writes: >> + * If the text is unmodified and a write-lock is held this function >> + * will repair "broken" timestamps and filesizes. > > I don't understand what is repaired. The database, or the file. If the file, > then how do we repair its filesize? > > This notion of "repair" is equally fuzzy in the later portions of this > commit.
"Timestamp repair" is the term that has been used since it was introduced in 1.2. I'll look at writing it down somewhere. -- Philip
