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Bug 176929

Summary:	NPTL: File's st_ctime and st_mtime are not updated when mmap'ed memory is changed.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Tony Reix <tony.reix>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nptl.bullopensource.org/Tests/TC2/report.php#problems
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Description Tony Reix 2006-01-04 15:05:25 UTC

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Description of problem:
OPTS test:
mmap/14-1.c
This test checks that the st_mtime and st_ctime fields of a file are updated when the file is mmap'ed and the corresponding memory is changed.

Details are available at:
http://nptl.bullopensource.org/Tests/results/report.php
Browse: (TC2) 2xi686HT - RHAS4u2 Run 1,2,3

See:
http://nptl.bullopensource.org/Tests/results/detailed.php?run_id=10&testcase_id=3435

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Unmodified RHEL4u2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use OPTS.
(Used version was:  OPTS cvs repository on Nov 14, 2005)

Actual Results:  See:
http://nptl.bullopensource.org/Tests/results/detailed.php?run_id=10&testcase_id=3435

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tony Reix 2006-01-04 16:00:12 UTC

Use the 3 (correct !) URLS:

http://nptl.bullopensource.org/Tests/TC2/report.php#problems

http://nptl.bullopensource.org/Tests/results/run-browse.php
     Click the "Browse" button of : (TC2) 2xi686HT - RHAS4u2 Run 3
     You can also select 2 runs and click the "Compare Selected" button.

Comment 2 Jason Baron 2006-01-17 18:53:02 UTC

agreed, this is violation of the spec. We already have this open as bz #173226.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173226 ***