Samba 2.2.1 released.

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Sun Jul 15 20:53:06 GMT 2001


On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:24:02AM -0400, Mike Black wrote:
> Copy to samba-2.0.7 (Linux)
> 
> Created  Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:47:48 AM
> Modified Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:47:48 AM
> Accessed Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:41:30 AM
> stat() results on file:
> Change: Thu Jul 12 05:43:30 2001
> Modify: Thu Nov 19 00:47:49 1998
> Access: Thu Nov 19 00:47:49 1998
> 
> Copy to samba-2.2.1 (Linux)
> 
> Created  Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:47:48 AM
> Modified Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:47:48 AM
> Accessed Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:47:48 AM
> stat() results on file:
> Change: Thu Jul 12 05:45:48 2001
> Modify: Thu Nov 19 00:47:49 1998
> Access: Thu Nov 19 00:47:49 1998
> 
> 
> Looks like my original bug (21369) may have been addressed but now this is a
> new one.
> But showing all 3 as oldest date will screw up lots of things (like Source
> Integrity -- RCS)
> .
> All the NT boxes behave the same -- Samba is deviant from NT.
> I never had any problems with the old 2.0.7 behavior but I do see problems
> with the
> new behavior.

Why does RCS use the accessed time?  Shouldn't it just use the
modified time?

This is deviating from NT, and may cause trouble with other software,
depending on what it expects.

Does anyone know why this was changed?




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