From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 24 17:38:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sneakerz.org (sneakerz.org [216.33.66.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B2837B407 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:38:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@sneakerz.org) Received: by sneakerz.org (Postfix, from userid 1092) id A133B5D010; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:38:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:38:09 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exec() doesn't update access time Message-ID: <20010724193809.F72882@sneakerz.org> References: <200107250035.UAA72348@cs.rpi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200107250035.UAA72348@cs.rpi.edu>; from crossd@cs.rpi.edu on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:35:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David E. Cross [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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message