Re: [PATCH -v8 2/4] Update ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files

[Anton Salikhmetov]

2008/1/23, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Anton Salikhmetov wrote:
> >
> > Update ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files at a write access on
> > a present, read-only PTE, as well as at a write on a non-present PTE.
>
> Ok, this one I'm applying. I agree that it leaves MS_ASYNC not updating
> the file until the next sync actually happens, but I can't really bring
> myself to care at least for an imminent 2.6.24 thing. The file times are
> actually "correct" in the sense that they will now match when the IO is
> done, and my man-page says that MS_ASYNC "schedules the io to be done".
>
> And I think this is better than we have now, and I don't think this part
> is somethign that anybody really disagrees with.
>
> We can (and should) keep the MS_ASYNC issue open.

Thank you!

I have closed the bug #2645, because this patch solves the issue
originally reported.

>
>                 Linus
>
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