Re: coreutils-8.21.chmod_speedup.patch

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/19/2013 08:57 PM, Alexey Potehin wrote:
> Hello people!
>
> This is path for chmod speedup (chmod only if newmode != oldmode), see file in 
> attach.
>
> This version adding command key '--noatime' for this.
>
> Apply this please)

--noctime you mean.

The previous thread about this was at:
http://en.usenet.digipedia.org/thread/12583/3181/

The consensus there was it was useful if it
could be done robustly and efficiently,
but no such solution could be found at the time.

thanks,
Pádraig.