Re: New feature

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Sep 1997 00:52:16 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970924095326.22662A-100000@nightshade.z.ml.org>
By author: linux kernel account <linker@nightshade.z.ml.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Files should have their atime changed when they are OPENED. Directories
> are opened when you look at their contentents, they should have their
> atime changed when you ls -R /. The file should not. And whatever is
> updated, the cache shouldn't be flushed when you sync.
>

YM "accessed". A stat() (reading the inode contents) is not an
access.

-hpa

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