Re: [NEWBIE] Why aren't directory mtimes updated like other filesystems?

[Danny Cox <danscox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:10, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Actually, it may be more insidious than that. When I did some testing over a 
> 30 
> minute period, at one point making a new subdirectory caused the parent's 
> mtime 
> to update, but it updated to a time of about 10 minutes previous, when I had 
> mad 
> other changes. So it did change, but not to the current time. Very strange.

        <shot from left field>

        Does running 'sync' after changes make any difference?

        </shot from left field>

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Danny