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

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxx>]

Danny Cox wrote:
> 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>
Doesn't appear to, no. No change before and after the sync command.