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

[Zack Weinberg]

On 8/25/07, Nuno Lucas <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ok, it makes sense and I can live with that.
> At the same time, as I noticed on my previous answer to Pavel, it
> seems if I do a msync at the end Linux should update the file mtime,
> even if atime is not. So that shows a POSIX workaround that can't be
> used on Linux.
>
> Well, that's life, and only bothered the list with this because I feel
> it's a behavior that other people can notice later and this way
> becomes documented.

This is probably worth adding to the FAQ, and perhaps also reporting a
Linux kernel bug - file mtime certainly ought to be updated for
mmap-writes.

zw