Re: [PATCH] t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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- Aug 1, 2016, 17:10 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Torstem Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
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> the term FREEBSD may be too generic to point out a single feature > in an OS distributution. > Following your investigations, it may even be possible that > other systems adapt this "feature"? > > How about > LAZY_DIR_MTIME_UPDATE > (or similar)
This feature was added in 1998, so yes there's a chance it has spread to a few fbsd derivatives (not sure if openbsd or netbsd is close enough and they ever exchange changes). But I'd rather wait for the second OS to expose the same feature before renaming it.
-- Duy