From: "rob pike, esq." <r@geekmail.cc>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] create() and mtime
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:06:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f2ff8a7c20beeea97858128bc424469@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d52464528fe3d79530be5aebea838cce@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
> It looks like a create of an existing file is not updating mtime. As a result
> news prints old news because the mtime of $home/lib/newstime gets fixed to
> the actual creation (not truncation) time.
i just noticed this myself. you need to write to a file to get its mtime updated.
i believe this is a mistake; the manual says mtime is time of change of content,
not time of write.
i would change your news program to create and write a byte.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-22 18:06 UTC|newest]
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2003-10-22 17:46 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-22 18:06 ` rob pike, esq. [this message]
2003-10-22 18:56 ` jmk
2003-10-23 10:38 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
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