NFS server doesn't update atime on exec()

[Mark Bartelt]

I just noticed that if a process on an NFS client exec()s a file that
lives on an SGI NFS server, the file's atime doesn't get updated!  Is
this a botch by SGI (i.e. does the NFS spec require that the atime be
updated, but IRIX simply doesn't do it), or is the question of whether
a server is meant to update the atime discretionary?

SunOS NFS servers do update atime on exec() from a client.

Mark Bartelt                                             416/978-5619
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Theoretical Astrophysics                        mark at cita.utoronto.ca