On 7/12/07, Jeremy Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:14:19PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2007, Carlos Knowlton wrote: > > I have a client with a windows utility that relies on "touch"ing (changing > > the mod time) on zero-length files in a folder for the purpose of judging > > when that folder was last accessed. This works fine for him on mapped > > windows servers, and from the local disk, but from a Samba (v3.0.22) > > volume, the mod time doesn't change unless there was an actual data change > > within the file. (ie, clicking "save" in notepad doesn't change the mod > > time unless he enters some data first.). > > Tried this out of curiosity and find the same results. It only happens with a > zero length file, if the file has any data in it then the timestamp does > change by doing a save in notepad (no data change necessary). With a zero > length file it doesn't change when the file is on a Samba share. > > However with a cifs mounted Samba share a "touch filename" does update the > timestamp even for zero length files. I've fixed this for 3.0.25c and later. Jeremy.
This is wonderful, Thanks! Any idea when 3.0.25c will be released? Thanks! Carlos -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
