Messages in this thread | | | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: New feature | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 1997 06:31:38 -0400 (EDT) |
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(Man, somebody opened a can of worms...)
Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Alan Modra second hand: >On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Alan Modra wrote: >> > The directory, yes. After all, I did read (access) all the directories. >> > However, some directory files do not contain other directory files. >> > They contain "normal" files which were not accessed at all. These files >> > should not have had their ATIME updated because they were not accessed. >> >> ls -F will access the files. check that you don't alias ls to 'ls -F'
Actually, it does not... go 'strace' an 'ls -F'. If will read the directory via getdents and lstat all the files.
--Ricky
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