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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:16:42 -0400
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
Cc:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu
Subject:   Re: exec() doesn't update access time 
Message-ID:  <200107250116.VAA73267@cs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>  of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:38:09 CDT." <20010724193809.F72882@sneakerz.org> 

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Well over NFS an exec will update atime (because NFS doesn't differentiate
between 'exec' and 'read').

Under Solaris8/Sparc (on a memfs mount) exec-ing an executable does indeed
update the access time.

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