Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 23:46:32 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File access times and filetest -A Message-ID: <199703080746.XAA09883@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Mar 1997 17:57:03 %2B1100." <Pine.NEB.3.93.970308174938.14519A-100000@cottontail.hobart.tased.edu.au>
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>This probably isnt very FreeBSD specific but: > >In tcsh I type: > >mopsy~>filetest -A fred >857803867 >mopsy~>more fred >sdsfss >mopsy~>filetest -A fred >857803867 > > >The access time hasn't gone up despite the fact that I mored the file. man >stat (I assume it is stat that is being used) says: > >st_atime Time when file data last accessed. Changed by the mknod(2), > utimes(2) and read(2) system calls. > >Does more not use read? Is this jsut a bug? The real reason I'm asking is more [less] probably uses mmap() to read the file. Mmap (actually page fault) doesn't update the access time on the file. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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