Re: refuse to update certain files upon extraction

Lasse Kliemann <[email protected]> wrote:

> It was caused by a rename, as in the attached rename.c (that's the one fr=
om =

> my old message <[email protected]> and not =
the =

> one I sent minutes ago).
>
> This rename.c is more complicated, but it was the simplest thing I manage=
d to =

> construct to reproduce the problem in conjunction with incremental dumps. =

>
> By the way, I just did some research on the rename-ctime-thing on Linux, =
and =

> it appears that something similar was noticed back in 2004 already. There=
 are =

> close to no responses to the patches sent in at that time. Someone even w=
rote =

> that this behavior is okay according to the SuS, but I am not completely =
sure =

> that he refers to the same thing. The current Linux Bug Tracker does not =
give =

> any hits for 'ctime rename', so I will file a bug report there now. Let's=
 see =

> what happens.

The behavior is not OK as neither mtime nor ctime are updated.

BTW: The Linux discussions I am aware of mention that Linux "only" updates =
ctime
which would be OK for star.

I am not able to say more now as opengroup.org is not working....

J=F6rg

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