Re: kupdate & laptop's [patch for integration of mobile-update]

Nix (nix@esperi.demon.co.uk)
16 Aug 1999 16:38:52 +0100


Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com> writes:

> Sort of like the
> current handling of dtime in ext2.

That's one thing that's been puzzling me; what's the point of the dtime
attribute? Nothing in the kernel looks at it[1], stat() and fstat() (of
course) cannot return it... is its purpose solely to help out those
unfortunates trying to manually undelete files from an ext2fs
filesystem, or what?

[1] on the basis of a quick pass through the sources with `grep'...

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