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SubjectRe: updating mtime for char/block devices?
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:45:47AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Can I prevent mtime updates for all device files? Mounting /dev readonly
> would certainly help, but for that to work I'd have to move /dev to a
> different filesystem, right?

tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk.
Intentionally.

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Russell King
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