vfs_stat called but ignored when client has dir open
Andrew Klaassen
clawsoon at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 26 13:15:35 MDT 2012
--- On Wed, 4/25/12, Andrew Klaassen <clawsoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 4/24/12, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE>
> wrote:
>
> > My question was more like whether Windows does it for
> > directories as well at all. If it does, we must do it as
> > well. If it does not, we have a bug in Samba.
>
> A quick test between Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 suggests
> that:
>
> - If the client has the directory open in one window and
> deletes a file in the directory from another window, the
> directory's mtime is cached, ~unless~ the directory's mtime
> is also being watched from the server, in which case the
> directory's mtime is updated.
> - If the client ~adds~ a file instead of deleting it,
> there's no directory mtime caching.
Looks like git-latest matches this behaviour.
Andrew
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