From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 4:53:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BFBE37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 04:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 35845 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Jul 2001 11:52:38 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:52:38 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: David Malone Cc: David Greenman , "David E. Cross" , Ronald G Minnich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exec() doesn't update access time Message-ID: <20010726145238.I15667@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: David Malone , David Greenman , "David E. Cross" , Ronald G Minnich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200107252013.QAA00335@cs.rpi.edu> <20010725142519.D14981@nexus.root.com> <20010726120917.A93478@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010726120917.A93478@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:09:17PM +0100 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 Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:09:17PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > 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? I think people are only discussing updating atime on exec(), not on all open()'s. I do not really believe you are trying to execute your mailboxes :) G'luck, Peter -- Hey, out there - is it *you* reading me, or is it someone else? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message