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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:22:58 +0200 From: utz lehmann <lkml123@...4n2c.de> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>, Volker.Lendecke@...net.de, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsde@...per.es Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But the fact is, th Unix ctime semantics are insane and largely > useless. There's a damn good reason almost nobody uses ctime under > unix. > > So what I'm suggesting is that we have a flag - either per-process or > per-mount - that just says "use windows semantics for ctime". When abusing an existing time stamp use atime not ctime please. ctime has it's uses. atime was just a mistake and is nearly useless. And with noatime we already have creation time semantics for atime. utz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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