Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?

[Russell King]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Russell King schrieb:
> > tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk.
> > Intentionally.
> 
> It seems the tty mtime exception doesn't include /dev/ptmx. That's
> probably unintentional. Is there a chance to extend the tty mtime
> exception to all char devices or at least major 4+5?

It does include /dev/ptmx, at least here with 2.6.11-rc2-bk1 and 2.4
kernels.  In fact, it's common to all tty devices since it's handled
by the generic tty code.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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