Patch for 2.3.9 mod time bug

[Bron Gondwana]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:51:09PM +0200, Michael Glad wrote:
> I also observe the 2.3.8/9 problem with sync_server not properly
> setting the mtime of sync'ed messages. 
> 
> The problem seems to be that the sync_message_fsync routine
> writes (flushes) to the message file after the utime call.
> 
> I've made the enclosed patches which solve the problems at least
> for me. It records the proper utime in an extra field of the
> sync_message structure which is fed to a utimes call after
> the flushing has been done.
> 
> 	-- Michael Glad, CS Dept, Aarhus University, Denmark

There has been some discussion of this same issue on a bugzilla
thread here:

https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2979

My reading of the manpages on my system is that "utimes()" is
deprecated (and besides we only have a resolution of 1 second
from the headers anyway) so I recommended going with the patch
that uses utime().

You should certainly see something that works correctly in the
next release though based on the interest this is getting.

Bron.