[linux-cifs-client] SMB_COM_CLOSE and LastWriteTime

[Suresh Jayaraman]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:26:58 +0200
> Guenter Kukkukk <linux at kukkukk.com> wrote:
> 
>> Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 schrieb Jeff Layton:
>>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:13:46 +0200
>>> Guenter Kukkukk <linux at kukkukk.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tested out the patch that you sent on March 13 and it seems to fix
>>> the problem of setting times against win2k3. My only concern is that it
>>> looks like it rips out some of the code that did an implicit
>>> open/setattr/close of a file when it's not already open. Some comments
>>> seem to indicate that older servers needed the file open in order to
>>> properly set the time. Do we know that this won't break against older
>>> servers?

I was under the impression that Steve's commit - 
50531444fac593c8c8e3ff2e41944d9507bb4665 fixed the "cp -p issue" with 
Windows servers, though I didn't verify on 2.6.25. Looks like the issue 
is still reproducible (Or) is this now specific to Win98 only?


Thanks,

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Suresh Jayaraman