Re: fs/ext2/namei.c: dir link/unlink bug? [Re: mv changes dir timestamp

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 02:50:52 EST


Bob Proulx writes:

> I tested this on both HP-UX, IBM AIX and Linux. HP-UX always
> preserved the previous timestamps. The same with 2.2.x versions of
> Linux. AIX was different and preserved the previous timestamp if
> the .. entry was the same as before but updated the timestamp if .. was
> different than before. But in the case where no real changes occurred
> none updated the timestamp. It would be interesting to see what
> Sun's Solaris and other systems do in those cases. This does not seem
> like a huge deal. There were differences in the different commercial
> flavors. But I like to think that we can do better than that.

Compaq Tru64 5 No time change in any case.
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