What action updates a file's ACCESS time?
klaus u schallhorn
klaus at cnix.uucp
Fri Nov 23 21:22:57 AEST 1990
In article <331 at twg.bc.ca> bill at twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
>I would like to know ALL the possible activities that could result in a file's
>access time (ls -lu) being updated. I have performed the following, with the
>noted result:
>
[ ... ]
>
>Are there any other actions that could be done that would update the access
>times? Specifically, if you saw many directories of program source code files
>(over 160 files) that had an access time between 6 and 7pm (after office
>hours), would you conclude that someone had used an editor and looked at each
>file within the hour, or would you conclude that the files had been archived
>to tape or diskette?
>
[ ... ]
>Bill Irwin - The Westrheim Group - Vancouver, BC, Canada
IMHO access times are changed by accessing a file, be it for reading,
writing or replacing contents of your source files with something sinnister.
Have a look in TFM under find -atime, what it says for directories
accessed by find.
klaus
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