Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 07:00:14 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another POSIX access timestamp pessimization Message-ID: <199612281500.HAA01066@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Dec 1996 01:17:04 %2B1100." <199612281417.BAA20220@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>POSIX says that "Upon successful completion, the exec functions shall >mark for update the st_atime field of the file". Not content with In my opinion, "tough". This is one part of POSIX that I'm not interested in being compatible with since the cost is too great. It may not be much of an issue at exec time, but the disk I/O caused by the update of the access time that occurs later is extremely expensive. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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