At 11:42 AM 3/26/2002 -0500, Derek D. Martin wrote:
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>Your e-mail client is wrapping somewhere around 90 columns. On this
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Woops, sorry - Fixed.
Let me know if its not wrapping. Thanks.
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>At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly:
>> One more tidbit: - the man page for stat(2) states that the atime
>> (access time) is set by the truncate system call and implies that
>> the mtime (modification time) is not.
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>That is not what my manpage for stat(2) says at all:
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> The field st_mtime is changed by file modifications, e.g.
> by mknod(2), truncate(2), utime(2) and write(2) (of more
> than zero bytes). Moreover, st_mtime of a directory is
> changed by the creation or deletion of files in that
> directory. The st_mtime field is not changed for changes
> in owner, group, hard link count, or mode.
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>This is on RH 7.1, but the stat times are modified by the kernel, and
>should be reletively independent of distribution.
Ah.. Looks like I should upgrade to 7.2 if only for the improved
man pages. :-)
RH 6.2 stat(2) man pages said :
Not all of the Linux filesystems implement all of the time
fields. Traditionally, st_atime is changed by mknod(2),
utime(2), read(2), write(2), and truncate(2).
Traditionally, st_mtime is changed by mknod(2), utime(2),
and write(2). The st_mtime is not changed for changes in
owner, group, hard link count, or mode.
This old version leaves some things unspecified and thus
less clear. But -
Somebody is writing updates to the man pages ! :)
I'm guessing the behavior of these fields hasn't changed,
just that the man pages are more specific now.
Thanks for the info. The new version makes more sense.
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