Re: PR/57246 CVS commit: src/sys/miscfs/genfs

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/57246; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: PR/57246 CVS commit: src/sys/miscfs/genfs
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 13:02:58 +1300

 On 6/03/23 12:55, Mark Davies wrote:
 >   Odd.  So I updated my 10_BETA tree to yesterday, then applied your 1.220
 >   to it, rebuild and installed that on a test system. Reproduced the test
 >   setup and tried it and the cp still failed.  Pretty sure that the patch
 >   is in place as the "touch" on the local filesystem now works where it
 >   didn't before.
 
 
 Turns out linux was caching the failure result from the setattr so 
 wasn't actually even trying to do it on the updated system.
 
 If I test with a pair of files that it hadn't previously cached, or 
 touch the original files so that linux thinks they have changed then it 
 works.
 
 So its all good and this ticket can be closed.
 
 cheers
 mark