Re: [PATCH ] Fix some problems with truncate and mtime semantics.

> -int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length, struct file *filp)
> +int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length, unsigned int time_attrs,
> +	struct file *filp)
>  {
>  	int err;
>  	struct iattr newattrs;
> @@ -204,7 +205,7 @@ int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, l
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	newattrs.ia_size = length;
> -	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;
> +	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | time_attrs;

I'd rather make the argument and boolean update_times flag and this:


	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE;
	if (update_times)
		newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_CTIME|ATTR_MTIME;

but except for that little nitpick the patch looks good.  thanks.

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