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Subject: Re: exec() doesn't update access time 
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From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
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Well over NFS an exec will update atime (because NFS doesn't differentiate
between 'exec' and 'read').

Under Solaris8/Sparc (on a memfs mount) exec-ing an executable does indeed
update the access time.

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