Re: exec() doesn't update access time

[David Malone]

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message