Kukks noticed that cp -p can write out file data too late, after the timestamp
is already set. This was introduced as an unintentional sideeffect of the change
in an earlier patch (see below) which fixed some delayed return code propagation.
cea218054ad277d6c126890213afde07b4eb1602
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Nov 20 23:19:03 2007 +0000
Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
}
cifsInode = CIFS_I(direntry->d_inode);
}
cifsInode = CIFS_I(direntry->d_inode);
- /* BB check if we need to refresh inode from server now ? BB */
-
- if (attrs->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
+ if ((attrs->ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME) || (attrs->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)) {
- Flush data before changing file size on server. If the
+ Flush data before changing file size or changing the last
+ write time of the file on the server. If the
flush returns error, store it to report later and continue.
BB: This should be smarter. Why bother flushing pages that
will be truncated anyway? Also, should we error out here if
flush returns error, store it to report later and continue.
BB: This should be smarter. Why bother flushing pages that
will be truncated anyway? Also, should we error out here if
CIFS_I(direntry->d_inode)->write_behind_rc = rc;
rc = 0;
}
CIFS_I(direntry->d_inode)->write_behind_rc = rc;
rc = 0;
}
+ if (attrs->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
/* To avoid spurious oplock breaks from server, in the case of
inodes that we already have open, avoid doing path based
setting of file size if we can do it by handle.
/* To avoid spurious oplock breaks from server, in the case of
inodes that we already have open, avoid doing path based
setting of file size if we can do it by handle.