What action updates a file's ACCESS time?
Geoff Clare
gwc at root.co.uk
Wed Nov 28 00:37:09 AEST 1990
In <141 at raysnec.UUCP> shwake at raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>bill at twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
>>1) vi the file and quit without saving (access time updated)
>>2) TAR archive some files to tape (updated)
> In both cases, your program opened the file for reading, thus
> the access time was updated.
Minor nit-pick: opening the file is not itself sufficient to update the
access time. You do actually have to read some data from the file.
E.g.
ls < file
will not update the access time of "file" because "ls" does not read
anything.
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