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From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
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Subject: File access times and filetest -A
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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