On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:09:17PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
> 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?
I think people are only discussing updating atime on exec(), not
on all open()'s. I do not really believe you are trying to execute
your mailboxes :)
G'luck,
Peter
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