Re: [PATCH 3/2] [RFC] NFS: Support the AT_NO_TIMES and AT_STRICT fstatat flags

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On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 18:47 -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> > +	if (!(flags & AT_NO_TIMES))
> > +		goto do_revalidate;
> 
> This is already a shortcoming of the less-fine grained control.
> Suppose a normal ls -l command, it does not care about atimes,
> only mtimes, but there is no way to specify it and NFS only
> cares if atimes were requested or not.

I agree that an explicit AT_NO_ATIME might be useful.

Cheers
  Trond
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