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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:48:01 +0000
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"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:

> rob pike wrote:
> > touch should just try to set the mtime, if the file server
> > will let it. ...
>
> Right.  NFS is an example of a filesystem that doesn't, so it
> requires an actual data transfer to update the time on the
> remote object.  We ran into that with BRL's MDQS spooling system.

NFS has a set attributes call that does permit you to directly set the
mtime.