linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Update relatime comments to include equality

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:54:37 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update relatime comments to include equality


On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:22:32 +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> relatime also updates atime if the previous atime is equal to one or
> both of the ctime and mtime; a non-strict interpretation of "earlier
> than" and "younger than" in the comments allows this, but for clarity,
> this makes it explicit.
> 
> Pointed out by "epiii2" and "ctrl-alt-delor" in
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/740862/86440.
> 
> [...]

Seems userspace documentation has been update accordingly. So looks good to me,

tree: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230325082232.2017437-1-steve@sk2.org
branch: fs.misc
[1/1] Update relatime comments to include equality
      commit: d98ffa1aca264ce547b9135135f83d81cfe4345f

Thanks!
Christian