Hi,

I'm using maildrop to deliver messages to maildirs within an NFS file server... for some reason, the mechanism used within do_deliver_warning() for updating the mtime doesn't work, so, after the initial warning message is delivered, every incoming message generates a new warning message within the maildir :-(

Reading 'man 2 stat' I see:

So, the write(fd, buf, 0) seems to be useless in this context... however, the open(qname, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0644) should implicitly call truncate(2)... as I wasn't sure (maybe it is smart enough to NOT call truncate(2) when O_TRUNC is enabled IF it knows that the current size is 0????

To test this I called ftruncate(fd, 0) after and before the write, to no avail...

What _did_ work was to actually write one byte to the file... to avoid filling the disk with one-byte sized files, I'm truncating it immediately, and this seems to work.

I applied the following patch (maildrop 1.6.3): --- maildir/maildirquota.c.ORI Wed May 19 15:38:43 2004 +++ maildir/maildirquota.c Wed May 19 16:10:49 2004 @@ -967,7 +967,8 @@ close(fdin); return; } - write(fd, buf, 0); + write(fd, buf, 1); + ftruncate(fd, 0); close(fd);

strcpy(buf, "Date: ");

FWIW, this is on a RHES-2.1. The NFS server is a cluster of two RHAS-2.1 with HP ServiceGuard clustering software... I think the clustered filesystem are ReiserFS.

Regards.

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