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SubjectRe: updating mtime for char/block devices?
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateMon, 28 Feb 2005 08:47:58 +0100
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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