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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:09:17 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: exec() doesn't update access time
Message-ID:  <20010726120917.A93478@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20010725142519.D14981@nexus.root.com>; from dg@root.com on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:25:19PM -0700
References:  <rminnich@lanl.gov> <200107252013.QAA00335@cs.rpi.edu> <20010725142519.D14981@nexus.root.com>

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:25:19PM -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>    Guessing, I think the correct fix is probably to set the IN_ACCESS flag in
> ufs_open() [and similarly with other filesystems where this makes sense] if
> the filesystem is not mounted with the noatime flag. However, I'm not sure
> of the symantics of the access time in the relavent standards, and I seem
> to recall Bruce saying that it was incorrect to indicate an access on just
> an open(), but I may be mistaken.

Wouldn't setting the access time on open mess up the "last read
time" for people's mail boxes when mail was delivered?

	David.

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