Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
> I don't know POSIX / UNIX all that well. Does it require that a stat
> call updates atime? Because that's one of those "how does it ever
> work" head-scratchers. (Maybe everybody always disables atime these
> days? I don't think I do.)
I think most Linux distributions disable it for you; or, rather, they
use the "relatime" mount option which is a smart cheat:
relatime
Update inode access times relative to modify or change time.
Access time is only updated if the previous access time was earlier
than the current modify or change time. (Similar to noatime, but
doesn't break mutt or other applications that need to know if a
file has been read since the last time it was modified.)
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