site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Mail-followup-to: Darwin kernel ml <darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com> User-agent: Mutt/1.4i-ja.1 On Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 12:46:29 PM -0800, John Davidorff Pell wrote:

On 15 Dec 2004, at 13:47, Alain Bench wrote:

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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. 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?

I don't know. It's possible, as tar manipulates atime. A thread about "delayed updates to file-access time" on the newsgroup comp.sys.mac.system gives updated infos, see: <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=32onijF3pr7geU1%40individual.net> - MacOS 10.3.7 also has the problem. - Previous atime matters: If month old, no problem. If minutes or some days old, problem. - Contrary to what I said, atime is updated to the wrong time of update, not to time of file access. Atime ends at access plus delay. - When problem, delay seems random from 20 seconds to 5 minutes. Merry Christmas! Alain. -- How to Report Bugs Effectively <URL:http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html> _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com