So guys (Mark, Bernd, or Russ), what do you think? Is there anything that
you'd like me to try to get this working? I'd love to have popbull
working correctly.
Matt
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 09:00:58AM -0800, Mark Delany wrote:
> > > creat is equivalent to open with flags equal to
> > > O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC.
> >
> > Yes. My manpage says that too. I wonder whether mtime only applies if the
> > file doesn't exist though?
>
> Not creating an existing file does not modify it.
>
> Greetings
> Bernd
>
>>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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