Re: [patch?] truncate and timestamps

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 23 May 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, my question was really a different one:
> do we want to follow POSIX, also in the silly requirement
> that truncate only sets mtime when the size changes, while
> O_TRUNC and ftruncate always set mtime.

Does POSIX really say that? What a crock. If so, we should probably add 
the ATTR_xxx mask as an argument to do_truncate() itself, and then make 
sure that may_open() sets the ATTR_MTIME bit.

		Linus