diff options
| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-01-08 01:02:39 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-08 20:13:52 -0800 |
| commit | 4a30131e7dbb17e5fec6958bfac9da9aff1fa29b (patch) | |
| tree | 2ff6139b393a9a413e2ea4db4dd2d15eec2201f8 /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | 788540141f4549637e89aadca6e25cf25eb53383 (diff) | |
[PATCH] Fix some problems with truncate and mtime semantics.
SUS requires that when truncating a file to the size that it currently
is:
truncate and ftruncate should NOT modify ctime or mtime
O_TRUNC SHOULD modify ctime and mtime.
Currently mtime and ctime are always modified on most local
filesystems (side effect of ->truncate) or never modified (on NFS).
With this patch:
ATTR_CTIME|ATTR_MTIME are sent with ATTR_SIZE precisely when
an update of these times is required whether size changes or not
(via a new argument to do_truncate). This allows NFS to do
the right thing for O_TRUNC.
inode_setattr nolonger forces ATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME when the ATTR_SIZE
sets the size to it's current value. This allows local filesystems
to do the right thing for f?truncate.
Also, the logic in inode_setattr is changed a bit so there are two return
points. One returns the error from vmtruncate if it failed, the other
returns 0 (there can be no other failure).
Finally, if vmtruncate succeeds, and ATTR_SIZE is the only change
requested, we now fall-through and mark_inode_dirty. If a filesystem did
not have a ->truncate function, then vmtruncate will have changed i_size,
without marking the inode as 'dirty', and I think this is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 6dbbd42d8b9..300eae088d5 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int acc_mode, int flag) if (!error) { DQUOT_INIT(inode); - error = do_truncate(dentry, 0, NULL); + error = do_truncate(dentry, 0, ATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME, NULL); } put_write_access(inode); if (error) |