[Samba] modification time inconsistency

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:45:11AM -0500, Carlos Knowlton wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:50:51PM -0500, Carlos Knowlton wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a client with a windows utility that relies on "touch"ing
> >(changing
> >> the mod time) on zero-length files in a folder for the purpose of
> >judging
> >> when that folder was last accessed.  This works fine for him on mapped
> >> windows servers, and from the local disk, but from a Samba (v3.0.22)
> >volume,
> >> the mod time doesn't change unless there was an actual data change
> >within
> >> the file.  (ie, clicking "save" in notepad doesn't change the mod time
> >> unless he enters some data first.).  I know this seems pretty trivial,
> >but
> >> it seems to make all the difference for some backup and SCADA software
> >> packages.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what I could do to fix this?
> >
> >Can you test against 3.0.25a (or soon b) to see if this is
> >currently a problem please ?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >        Jeremy.
> >
> 
> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this.
> 
> I have checked the latest Samba version, and the same behavior I saw in
> 3.0.22 also exists in 3.0.25b.  Any ideas what might be happening, or how to
> fix this?

Can you log a bug in bugzilla please so I can track it ?

Thanks,

Jeremy.