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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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