On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 21:48 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > This still does not address the situation where a file is 'permanently' > > mmap'd, does it? > > So? If application doesn't do msync, then the file times won't be > updated. That's allowed by the standard, and so portable applications > will have to call msync.
It is allowed, but it is clearly not useful behaviour. Nowhere is it set in stone that we should be implementing just the minimum allowed. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
