26 Mar
2008
26 Mar
'08
01:01
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 17:41, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:47 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Only modifying the directory itself (creating or removing directory entries) should change its modification time. And to be clear, creating and deleting are the _only_ directory operations. Renaming (what "mv" does) is accomplished by making a link to the new name followed by unlinking the original name.
I don't think that's true. rename(2) is a syscall all of its own, and as far as I know, it is "atomic"
Sheer revisionism! True (tm) Unix has no such abominations. Nonetheless, the effect is the same.
Anders
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