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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:09:10 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: exec() doesn't update access time 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.20.0107251408110.10828-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <200107252001.QAA99736@cs.rpi.edu>

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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, David E. Cross wrote:

> In my case it would be usefull as I was trying to tell the last time
> 'telnetd' was run. (yes, not perfect, but better than nothing)

well, for caching file systems it is very useful to have an exec set
atime. Helps you figure out which files can be pruned from the cache. This
sounds like a good fix.

ron


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