[Monotone-devel] Re: Monotone fails to detect certain changes in files

[Pavel Cahyna]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:03:15AM +0100, Nuno Lucas wrote:
> I believe the problem is that I used a small data conversion program
> that changed the files by mmaping them (it's a small utility to
> convert files with a MS-DOS codepage to ISO-8859-1 and some few other
> simple character table-based conversions), and it seems that use-case,
> with the "noatime" mount option, doesn't get noticed.
> 
> Not sure if it really is a bug or something I should expect because of
> the way my system is setup and the way I work with the mmaped file.

Does your small utility use msync()? Apparently without msync, file
modification change is supposed to be updated "at some point in the
future", which might be after monotone checks it.

Pavel