> 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
> > > ufs_open() [and similarly with other filesystems where this makes sense] i
> > > 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 :)
Surely if you mark the file for update in ufs_open then it doesn't
matter if you're opening of execing?
David.
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