Re: [issue1308] hammer: stat returns wrong time when using tids

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :When stat'ing a file with tid, hammer seems to always return the "first" ti=
> :me
> :for mtime, not the real mtime.  However undo -i can retrieve this time, so =
> :it
> :possibly isn't lost.
>
>     Note that the fixed mtime/atime for files accessed via a TID is to
>     ensure that snapshots remain consistent.  Otherwise if you do something
>     such as tar up a snapshot and pipe it to md5, and then do it again
>     later, you will get a different result.
>
>     We may be able to do some refinement there, but whatever is returned
>     by the snapshot has to be returned every time the snapshot is accessed.

Ah now I see, it always reports to ctime of the inode.  I suppose we don't 
keep track of mtimes then?

cheers
  simon

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