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Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even whe
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary |
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Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:50:35 +0200 |
Michael Stone <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:51:04PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>That sounds like a good reason to retain the behavior you've come to
>>value, even if it's not guaranteed or portable, but only via a new
>>option. Then we can still change the default to be more efficient.
>
> Why on earth would we want to? Some people obviously like the current
> behavior, and depend on the side effects, the desired behavior is easy
> to get with existing tools, and adding a new option seems like
> something that shouldn't be done without a very good reason. This
> seems like optimization for the sake of optimization. (And it would
> make chmod inconsistent with chown and chgrp.)
I don't feel very strongly one way or the other,
since I don't plan to do the work.
Realize that afaik no one is working on this.
I merely added the item to the TODO list, and we
know from experience that that's no guarantee it'll be done.
- Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary, Jim Meyering, 2008/09/02
- Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary, Erik Rossen, 2008/09/02
- Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary, Paul Eggert, 2008/09/11
- Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary, Eric Blake, 2008/09/11
- Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary, Jim Meyering, 2008/09/12
- Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary, Michael Stone, 2008/09/12
- Re: Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary,
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