Messages in this thread | | | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: New feature | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 1997 06:34:24 -0400 (EDT) |
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Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Rogier Wolff: >I disagree. stat-ing a file accesses the directory. As does reading >the directory. stat-ing a file does not access that file. > >This is the way it is supposed to work, this is the way it works on >2.0.30. > >Otherwise "ls -lrt --time=atime" would be pretty destructive: you'd >touch all access time on the way.
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Gee, how long are we going to argue about this before someone goes to the kernel to see what the h*ll it's doing and then consult the POSIX docs to see if there are any rules.
I quote the stat(2) manpage (Linux 1.175): Not all of the Linux filesystems implement all of the time fields. Traditionally, st_atime is changed by mknod(2), utime(2), read(2), write(2), and truncate(2).
Traditionally, st_mtime is changed by mknod(2), utime(2), and write(2). The st_mtime is not changed for changes in owner, group, hard link count, or mode.
Traditionally, st_ctime is changed by writing or by set- ting inode information (i.e., owner, group, link count, mode, etc.).
--Ricky
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