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Subject: Re: Anyone else seen this?
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> So, it seems to me we have two interesting data points regarding this:
> 
> 1) Statically linked binaries are not affected by this phenomenon.
> 2) Binaries residing on R/O filesystems are not affected either.
> 
> Does anyone know anything else?

>From the decriptions so far, it's a date stamp on write after a
copy-on-write has taken place, pretty obviously.


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					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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