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Re: [PATCH] fts: introduce FTS_NOATIME
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH] fts: introduce FTS_NOATIME |
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Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:03:18 -0700 |
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On 07/08/11 10:27, Eric Blake wrote:
> if O_NOATIME is 0, --noatime should be rejected as an outright
> impossibility.
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> if O_NOATIME is non-zero, --noatime should enable FTS_NOATIME, but only
> as a best-effort (that is, the option is silently ignored where the
> kernel is too old),
If --noatime is silently ignored in the latter case,
shouldn't it also be silently ignored in the former?
That would be more consistent across platforms.