On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 05:26:07PM +0100, hch wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:20:45PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Note that the POSIX spec seems to have changed recently. The current > > spec appears to state that we should set the mtime and ctime (and > > change attribute) on success in open(O_TRUNC), truncate() and > > ftruncate(). In previous incarnations of the spec, truncate() would > > only set the time if the size was changed: > > Interesting. But in this case historical Posix and thus Linux behavior > still takes precedence and we're not suddently going to change behavior. Makes sense as a general rule, but is it really likely that anyone depends on ctime/mtime not changing on a non-size-changing truncate()? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
