[Samba] modification time inconsistency

[Carlos Knowlton]

On 7/12/07, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:14:19PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 June 2007, Carlos Knowlton wrote:
> > > 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.).
> >
> > Tried this out of curiosity and find the same results. It only happens
> with a
> > zero length file, if the file has any data in it then the timestamp does
> > change by doing a save in notepad (no data change necessary). With a
> zero
> > length file it doesn't change when the file is on a Samba share.
> >
> > However with a cifs mounted Samba share a "touch filename" does update
> the
> > timestamp even for zero length files.
>
> I've fixed this for 3.0.25c and later.
>
> Jeremy.



This is wonderful, Thanks!

Any idea when 3.0.25c will be released?


Thanks!
Carlos