On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:42:43AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> as modifications are visible to the world at this point,
> >> "if (error == 0)" here doesn't make much sense.
> >
> >If genfs_gop_write() returned an error, it's possible that the data have not
> >been written, right ? Do we still want to update the mtime of the inode if
> >no data was written on disk ?
> >
> 
> Yes, because the write operation may have partially succeeded.

The question is, should the mtime be updated on a partial write operation ?
Some data have changed, but it may not be complete.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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