[TAG] Question about file mtime on linux

[mso@oz.net]

John Karns wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, mso at oz.net wrote:
>
>> John Karns wrote:
>>> In fact I've sometimes wondered about this myself: if there is a
>>> pending
>>> write to a file via a dirty buffer, is that automatically taken into
>>> account if I read the file before the buffer is flushed?  I.e., is the
>>> pending change transparently mapped to a read of the file by libc or
>>> whatever?
>>
>> It would be a very severe bug if it didn't read from the buffer, since
>> that's the official version currently.  I've sometimes wondered this
>> myself, but I've found the kernel developers pretty trustworthy so I
>> assumed they wouldn't do such a thing.
>
> Ok, that's how I had imagined that it [sw]ould work.  [Mental note: It may
> make a worth while endeaver for me one of these days to read up on it a
> bit.]

I smell an LG article coming....