diff -r 2097f63575a5 -r 000130cfafb6 rust/rhg/src/commands/status.rs
--- a/rust/rhg/src/commands/status.rs	Thu Dec 02 15:10:03 2021 +0100
+++ b/rust/rhg/src/commands/status.rs	Thu Nov 25 18:33:51 2021 +0100
@@ -13,14 +13,18 @@
 use hg;
 use hg::config::Config;
 use hg::dirstate::has_exec_bit;
-use hg::errors::HgError;
+use hg::dirstate::TruncatedTimestamp;
+use hg::dirstate::RANGE_MASK_31BIT;
+use hg::errors::{HgError, IoResultExt};
+use hg::lock::LockError;
 use hg::manifest::Manifest;
 use hg::matchers::AlwaysMatcher;
 use hg::repo::Repo;
 use hg::utils::files::get_bytes_from_os_string;
-use hg::utils::hg_path::{hg_path_to_os_string, HgPath};
+use hg::utils::hg_path::{hg_path_to_path_buf, HgPath};
 use hg::{HgPathCow, StatusOptions};
 use log::{info, warn};
+use std::io;
 
 pub const HELP_TEXT: &str = "
 Show changed files in the working directory
@@ -229,6 +233,7 @@
             &ds_status.unsure
         );
     }
+    let mut fixup = Vec::new();
     if !ds_status.unsure.is_empty()
         && (display_states.modified || display_states.clean)
     {
@@ -243,8 +248,9 @@
                 }
             } else {
                 if display_states.clean {
-                    ds_status.clean.push(to_check);
+                    ds_status.clean.push(to_check.clone());
                 }
+                fixup.push(to_check.into_owned())
             }
         }
     }
@@ -318,6 +324,71 @@
             b"C",
         )?;
     }
+
+    let mut dirstate_write_needed = ds_status.dirty;
+    let filesystem_time_at_status_start = ds_status
+        .filesystem_time_at_status_start
+        .map(TruncatedTimestamp::from);
+
+    if (fixup.is_empty() || filesystem_time_at_status_start.is_none())
+        && !dirstate_write_needed
+    {
+        // Nothing to update
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+
+    // Update the dirstate on disk if we can
+    let with_lock_result =
+        repo.try_with_wlock_no_wait(|| -> Result<(), CommandError> {
+            if let Some(mtime_boundary) = filesystem_time_at_status_start {
+                for hg_path in fixup {
+                    use std::os::unix::fs::MetadataExt;
+                    let fs_path = hg_path_to_path_buf(&hg_path)
+                        .expect("HgPath conversion");
+                    // Specifically do not reuse `fs_metadata` from
+                    // `unsure_is_clean` which was needed before reading
+                    // contents. Here we access metadata again after reading
+                    // content, in case it changed in the meantime.
+                    let fs_metadata = repo
+                        .working_directory_vfs()
+                        .symlink_metadata(&fs_path)?;
+                    let mtime = TruncatedTimestamp::for_mtime_of(&fs_metadata)
+                        .when_reading_file(&fs_path)?;
+                    if mtime.is_reliable_mtime(&mtime_boundary) {
+                        let mode = fs_metadata.mode();
+                        let size = fs_metadata.len() as u32 & RANGE_MASK_31BIT;
+                        let mut entry = dmap
+                            .get(&hg_path)?
+                            .expect("ambiguous file not in dirstate");
+                        entry.set_clean(mode, size, mtime);
+                        dmap.add_file(&hg_path, entry)?;
+                        dirstate_write_needed = true
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            drop(dmap); // Avoid "already mutably borrowed" RefCell panics
+            if dirstate_write_needed {
+                repo.write_dirstate()?
+            }
+            Ok(())
+        });
+    match with_lock_result {
+        Ok(closure_result) => closure_result?,
+        Err(LockError::AlreadyHeld) => {
+            // Not updating the dirstate is not ideal but not critical:
+            // don’t keep our caller waiting until some other Mercurial
+            // process releases the lock.
+        }
+        Err(LockError::Other(HgError::IoError { error, .. }))
+            if error.kind() == io::ErrorKind::PermissionDenied =>
+        {
+            // `hg status` on a read-only repository is fine
+        }
+        Err(LockError::Other(error)) => {
+            // Report other I/O errors
+            Err(error)?
+        }
+    }
     Ok(())
 }
 
@@ -368,7 +439,7 @@
     hg_path: &HgPath,
 ) -> Result<bool, HgError> {
     let vfs = repo.working_directory_vfs();
-    let fs_path = hg_path_to_os_string(hg_path).expect("HgPath conversion");
+    let fs_path = hg_path_to_path_buf(hg_path).expect("HgPath conversion");
     let fs_metadata = vfs.symlink_metadata(&fs_path)?;
     let is_symlink = fs_metadata.file_type().is_symlink();
     // TODO: Also account for `FALLBACK_SYMLINK` and `FALLBACK_EXEC` from the
@@ -399,5 +470,5 @@
     } else {
         vfs.read(fs_path)?
     };
-    return Ok(contents_in_p1 != &*fs_contents);
+    Ok(contents_in_p1 != &*fs_contents)
 }