Re: file last access time late sync
Re: file last access time late sync
- Subject: Re: file last access time late sync
- From: John Davidorff Pell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:46:29 -0800
I've experienced a problem with TAR reporting that a file has changed
while being read, when I know that it hasn't. Could this
be related to this bug? Its been so bad that I've gotten into the habit
of running tar c Dir1 Dir2 Dir3 > /dev/null before I create the actual
archive.
JP
On 15 Dec 2004, at 13:47, Alain Bench wrote:
Hello,
Some people using Darwin 7.6.0 and HFS+ journaled filesystem have a
problem where a file's last access time is not updated immediately on a
file read.
| $ cd ~/Mail
| $ ls -ul testbox; cat testbox >/dev/null; date; ls -ul testbox
| -rw------- 1 chris chris 943280 10 Dec 02:56 testbox
| Fri Dec 10 03:00:47 CET 2004
| -rw------- 1 chris chris 943280 10 Dec 02:56 testbox
Atime is updated to the right 03:00 something as about 5 minutes
later. Journaling enabled or disabled same problem. Allegedly Darwin
6.x
had no problem.
Is this late atime a bug? Or is it a setting somewhere?
Note: I know nothing about Darwin or MacOS. The problem was found
during a report of misbehaviour of the MUA Mutt on comp.mail.mutt, see
there full context in thread "N-flag stays put after reading", or
<URL:http://www.google.com/groups?
threadm=email@hidden>.
Bye! Alain.
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