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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:38:09 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: exec() doesn't update access time
Message-ID:  <20010724193809.F72882@sneakerz.org>
In-Reply-To: <200107250035.UAA72348@cs.rpi.edu>; from crossd@cs.rpi.edu on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:35:11PM -0400
References:  <200107250035.UAA72348@cs.rpi.edu>

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* David E. Cross <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> [010724 19:35] wrote:
> I noticed that exec(2) does not update the last access time of a file...
> is this intentional?

atime was implemented to satisfy a specification (which stinks),
I would track down the specification and see, either that or compare
against various other UN*X.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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