Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:20:08 -0800 (PST) From: Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/25777: atime not updated on exec Message-ID: <200302051320.h15DK8ec003662@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/25777; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, pdp@nl.demon.net Cc: Subject: Re: kern/25777: atime not updated on exec Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:16:19 +0100 I just spent roughly two nights to hit the same problem; I'm developing a KDE frontend to the ports system <http://www.student.uni-oldenburg.de/frerich.raabe/barry>, and a feature of that frontend is that it can (or rather, it tries to) find unused packages. It does so by checking all plists for the installed packages, looking for whether there's at least one file in a plist which hasn't been accessed in the last n days. If that's true, the respective package might be subject for removal, and is suggested as such. Unfortunately, since this bug exists, the atime of executables (which I use for determining when a file has last been accessed, of course) does not get bumped when the executable gets run, hence the port frontend keeps suggesting things like "gmake", even though I run that on a daily basis. I'd really appreciate it if you could fix this bug, at least for FreeBSD 5.1. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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