From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 4: 9:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 295BF37B406 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 04:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 26 Jul 2001 12:09:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:09:17 +0100 From: David Malone To: David Greenman Cc: "David E. Cross" , Ronald G Minnich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exec() doesn't update access time Message-ID: <20010726120917.A93478@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200107252013.QAA00335@cs.rpi.edu> <20010725142519.D14981@nexus.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010725142519.D14981@nexus.root.com>; from dg@root.com on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:25:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:25:19PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > Guessing, I think the correct fix is probably to set the IN_ACCESS flag in > ufs_open() [and similarly with other filesystems where this makes sense] if > the filesystem is not mounted with the noatime flag. However, I'm not sure > of the symantics of the access time in the relavent standards, and I seem > to recall Bruce saying that it was incorrect to indicate an access on just > an open(), but I may be mistaken. Wouldn't setting the access time on open mess up the "last read time" for people's mail boxes when mail was delivered? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message