Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:57:03 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: File access times and filetest -A Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.970308174938.14519A-100000@cottontail.hobart.tased.edu.au>
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Hi,
This probably isnt very FreeBSD specific but:
In tcsh I type:
mopsy~>filetest -A fred
857803867
mopsy~>more fred
sdsfss
mopsy~>filetest -A fred
857803867
The access time hasn't gone up despite the fact that I mored the file. man
stat (I assume it is stat that is being used) says:
st_atime Time when file data last accessed. Changed by the mknod(2),
utimes(2) and read(2) system calls.
Does more not use read? Is this jsut a bug? The real reason I'm asking is
because I'm trying to
write a script that comapres the access time of my mail file compared with
its modification time so that I can tell if I have new mail.
Thanks,
Andrew
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