Wrote a quick (but clean) patch
to have O_NOATIME applied on file opens.
I find this handy for bulk find/grep when
I'd prefer not to update atime.
If the patch is of interest I'm willing
to improve it by having the feature
present conditionally on the appearance of
HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME
in 'co
At 13:13 9/11/2014 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> If the patch is of interest I'm willing
>> to improve it by having the feature
>> present conditionally on the appearance of
>> HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME
>> in 'config.h'.
>
>Thanks, but there's no need for that; just
>have 'grep' complain if the opt
Another argument in favor of adding O_NOATIME
support to a limited set of utilities (just
'grep' IMO) is that recent 'ext4' file system
behavior defaults to a mode where ATIME is
updated only once relative to a given MTIME.
For O_NOATIME to be of use, one must care
enough about ATIME to add 'stric
