On Fri, 23 May 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>
> On the other hand, my question was really a different one:
> do we want to follow POSIX, also in the silly requirement
> that truncate only sets mtime when the size changes, while
> O_TRUNC and ftruncate always set mtime.
Does POSIX really say that? What a crock. If so, we should probably add
the ATTR_xxx mask as an argument to do_truncate() itself, and then make
sure that may_open() sets the ATTR_MTIME bit.
Linus
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