1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/methods/rred.cc b/methods/rred.cc
index 262c78cab..d51c45c85 100644
--- a/methods/rred.cc
+++ b/methods/rred.cc
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ bool RredMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)						/*{{{*/
    // the cleanup/closing of the fds)
    FileFd From(Path,FileFd::ReadOnly);
    FileFd Patch(Path+".ed",FileFd::ReadOnly);
-   FileFd To(Itm->DestFile,FileFd::WriteEmpty);   
+   FileFd To(Itm->DestFile,FileFd::WriteAtomic);   
    To.EraseOnFailure();
    if (_error->PendingError() == true)
       return false;
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ bool RredMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)						/*{{{*/
       // retry with patchFile
       lseek(Patch.Fd(), 0, SEEK_SET);
       lseek(From.Fd(), 0, SEEK_SET);
-      To.Open(Itm->DestFile,FileFd::WriteEmpty);
+      To.Open(Itm->DestFile,FileFd::WriteAtomic);
       if (_error->PendingError() == true)
          return false;
       if (patchFile(Patch, From, To, &Hash) != ED_OK) {
@@ -477,23 +477,26 @@ bool RredMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)						/*{{{*/
    Patch.Close();
    To.Close();
 
-   // Transfer the modification times
-   struct stat Buf;
-   if (stat(Path.c_str(),&Buf) != 0)
+   /* Transfer the modification times from the patch file
+      to be able to see in which state the file should be
+      and use the access time from the "old" file */
+   struct stat BufBase, BufPatch;
+   if (stat(Path.c_str(),&BufBase) != 0 ||
+       stat(string(Path+".ed").c_str(),&BufPatch) != 0)
       return _error->Errno("stat",_("Failed to stat"));
 
    struct utimbuf TimeBuf;
-   TimeBuf.actime = Buf.st_atime;
-   TimeBuf.modtime = Buf.st_mtime;
+   TimeBuf.actime = BufBase.st_atime;
+   TimeBuf.modtime = BufPatch.st_mtime;
    if (utime(Itm->DestFile.c_str(),&TimeBuf) != 0)
       return _error->Errno("utime",_("Failed to set modification time"));
 
-   if (stat(Itm->DestFile.c_str(),&Buf) != 0)
+   if (stat(Itm->DestFile.c_str(),&BufBase) != 0)
       return _error->Errno("stat",_("Failed to stat"));
 
    // return done
-   Res.LastModified = Buf.st_mtime;
-   Res.Size = Buf.st_size;
+   Res.LastModified = BufBase.st_mtime;
+   Res.Size = BufBase.st_size;
    Res.TakeHashes(Hash);
    URIDone(Res);