Re: [RFC] [PATCH] do_sys_truncate: call do_truncate withATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME

[Trond Myklebust]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 17:33 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
> Hello
> 
> do_sys_ftruncate calls do_truncate with time_attrs set to ATTR_MTIME|
> ATTR_CTIME. Is there a reason for do_sys_truncate to not set time_attrs
> to the same value or it is a bug?

It would be a bug.

In the case of truncate(), the filesystem has to decide if the file size
will actually change. If it does, then it has to update mtime/ctime. In
the case of ftruncate(), it would appear that the filesystem always has
to update mtime/ctime on success, so it is appropriate to call
do_truncate with ATTR_MTIME/ATTR_CTIME.

Cheers,
  Trond

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