Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: updating mtime for char/block devices? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:47:58 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 00:51 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi, > > is it intentional that > echo foo >/dev/hda1 > doesn't update the mtime of the device node, but > echo foo >/dev/tty10 > does update the mtime of the device node? > > And no, mounting with the noatime flag doesn't help because the > mtime is updated. IIRC some time ago this behaviour was different, > but I could easily be mistaken.
devices are tricky in general in this respect, /dev may be mounted read only for example ;)
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