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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:58:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46314AAD.9010300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46314A08.9000209@redhat.com>

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I'm a bit leery of abusing the timespec value like this, though.  A
>> flags field seem like it would be cleaner.
> 
> It's ugly.  Then you have the parameter, which might have nice valid
> values, and they get ignored.  I thought about it when this was
> discussed in the working group and thought it's a toss up.

It's pretty ugly either way :-/

>> Something else... if we're dickering with these interfaces, shouldn't we
>> allow setting atime as well?
> 
> Why?  To allow somebody to hide her/his tracks?

Primarily to let a backup program restore the full state of the filesystem.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-26 22:49 Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-26 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-27  0:11   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:55     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  0:58       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-27  1:04         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27 23:05             ` David Lang
2007-04-27 23:30             ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:33               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:54   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 15:27     ` Updated utimensat test program Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  1:57 ` [PATCH] utimensat implementation Neil Brown
2007-04-27  2:13   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  6:01     ` Neil Brown
2007-05-10 18:26     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-10 18:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 19:44         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-13 21:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-11  1:01         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-11  2:14       ` Neil Brown

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