[tech] grrr... bloody morwong.

[Ian McKellar]

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:08:50AM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> David Luyer wrote on Wed May 17, at 13:01 +1000:
> > > In my experience the noac flag is generally ignored.
> > > 
> > > Attributes are still cached.
> > 
> > It's always worked for me.
> 
> Years ago when I was hacking mutt, freading and fwriting didn't always
> update the attributes of the file.  Sometimes, but not always.  My
> workaround was to call utime() as required.

So utime() flushes the cache? John could put utime() calls in before 
checking the modification time...

Ian

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