Mark Delany writes:
> Hmm. According to Solaris, mtime changes when you issue one of:
>
> creat(), mknod(), pipe(), utime(), and write(2).
>
> Does the patch write anything into .timestamp? Should it?
No and absent a kernel bug, no:
creat is equivalent to open with flags equal to
O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC.
int open_trunc(fn) char *fn;
{ return open(fn,O_WRONLY | O_NDELAY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT,0644); }
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