Wrote a quick (but clean) patch to have O_NOATIME applied on file opens. I find this handy for bulk find/grep when I'd prefer not to update atime.
If the patch is of interest I'm willing to improve it by having the feature present conditionally on the appearance of HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME in 'config.h'. Perhaps my choice of -N or --no-atime are not agreeable to all. Possibly the option does not belong under "miscellaneous." Easy to change.
grep-noatime.patch
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