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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:18:23 +0100
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: open(2) and O_NOATIME
Message-ID:  <20081031021823.GA575@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <490A6A8A.7080504@delphij.net>
References:  <20081030154711.GA8416@icarus.home.lan> <490A6A8A.7080504@delphij.net>

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:16:42PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> Em...  Allowing administrators to disable NOATIME would be a good thing,
> but wouldn't allowing arbitrary program to decide whether atime should
> be changed, be a serious security disaster?

Think of backup programs.

Joerg



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