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According to Manuel Gonzalez Montoya on 4/7/2008 2:51 PM:
| Is the file's mtime supposed to change on every write to the file?.

No - the file's mtime is only supposed to be scheduled for update on every
write to a file, where the update period can be indefinitely into the
future, with the caveat that close() and stat() trigger any scheduled
updates to happen regardless of when updates are normally scheduled.  See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html,
section 4.7:

An implementation may update fields that are marked for update
immediately, or it may update such fields periodically. At an update point
in time, any marked fields shall be set to the current time and the update
marks shall be cleared. All fields that are marked for update shall be
updated when the file ceases to be open by any process, or when a stat(),
fstat(), or lstat() is performed on the file. Other times at which updates
are done are unspecified.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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