Re: [PATCH -v6 2/2] Updating ctime and mtime for memory-mappedfiles

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Sat Jan 19 2008 - 10:52:12 EST



On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:22 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Reminds me, I've got a patch here for addressing that problem with loop mounts:
> >
> > Writes to loop should update the mtime of the underlying file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Index: l/drivers/block/loop.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- l.orig/drivers/block/loop.c 2007-11-05 17:50:07.000000000 -0600
> > +++ l/drivers/block/loop.c 2007-11-05 19:03:51.000000000 -0600
> > @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static int do_lo_send_aops(struct loop_d
> > offset = pos & ((pgoff_t)PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
> > bv_offs = bvec->bv_offset;
> > len = bvec->bv_len;
> > + file_update_time(file);
> > while (len > 0) {
> > sector_t IV;
> > unsigned size;
> > @@ -299,6 +300,7 @@ static int __do_lo_send_write(struct fil
> >
> > set_fs(get_ds());
> > bw = file->f_op->write(file, buf, len, &pos);
> > + file_update_time(file);
>
> ->write should have already updated the times, no?

Yes, this second case is redundant. Still needed in the first case.

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