>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?
Probably. Now that you mention it, it seems kind of bogus for a file write
to not be considered an "access".
-DG
David Greenman
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