linux-kernel - Re: mtime updates for mmapped files.

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:11:58 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	hidave.darkstar@...il.com
CC:	R.E.Wolff@...wizard.nl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	salikhmetov@...il.com
Subject: Re: mtime updates for mmapped files.

> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I  wrote a small app yesterday that updates a file by mmapping the
> > file (RW), changing the thing around, and then exiting.
> >
> > This did not trigger a change in the mtime of the file. Thus rsync
> > didn't pick up that the file had changed.
> >
> > I understand that tracking every change to a RW mmapped file is
> > costly, and thus unfeasable, but shouldn't then the close cause a
> > mtime update?
> >
> > The server where this happened is running 2.6.21, so my apologies if
> > this has already been corrected.
> 
> This is an old bug, don't know if it was fixed or not. Please see
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/138

It's not fixed yet, but Anton Salikhmetov is currently working on it:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/15/202

Miklos
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