From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 25 13: 9:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC4537B409 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from snaresland.acl.lanl.gov (IDENT:root@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.113]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.11.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id f6PK9Ap634821; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:09:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by snaresland.acl.lanl.gov (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12461; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:09:10 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: snaresland.acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:09:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-Sender: rminnich@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov To: "David E. Cross" Cc: David Greenman , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exec() doesn't update access time In-Reply-To: <200107252001.QAA99736@cs.rpi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message