Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:53:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Ian West <ian@apdata.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Atime not set on execution ? Message-ID: <199904051553.LAA20397@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <3707F2D6.C37B4B7D@apdata.com.au> References: <199904041017.UAA29125@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <3707F2D6.C37B4B7D@apdata.com.au>
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<<On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 08:46:38 +0930, Ian West <ian@apdata.com.au> said: > Thanks for the response, there isn't per chance an option to turn this > on is there ? The way programs are executed (by intention) does not run through the code path which would touch the access time. The POSIX.1 specification, IIRC, requires that the atime be updated when the program exits -- this would be very inefficient to do in our VM system. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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