[1249] in Athena Bugs
Re: updating mod time of files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Oct 26 09:05:04 1988
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 88 09:04:48 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Dan Geer's message of Wed, 26 Oct 88 08:59:33 EDT,
I actually talked with Jeff a little bit about this a while ago, from
a different angle (verifying write access to a file by trying an empty
write). The same conclusions would apply here: Should opening a file
for write without actually writing it constitute a modification (even
over NFS, a protocol which doesn't support the concept of "opening" a
file), and will anything likely break in subtle ways if the semantics
are changed?
