On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:54:24 -0700, Ted Bullock wrote:

> Here is a sample of the actual numbers, it's not a truncation.
>
> sb.st_mtim.tv_sec: 1678308226, sb.st_mtim.tv_nsec: 125222348
> ep->mtim.tv_sec: 1678308226, ep->mtim.tv_nsec: 55250221

OK, sb.st_mtim is the current mtime and ep->mtim is the saved mtime.
So the mtime on the file has increased slightly.

I'm not sure why that would be, but edit_logmsg() can be called
while logmsg_path is actually closed.  Closing the fd first and
_then_ editing the file might avoid the problem.

 - todd