What action updates a file's ACCESS time?
Ray Shwake
shwake at raysnec.UUCP
Thu Nov 22 03:38:41 AEST 1990
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.
>3) list file names to a file and printer
> ls -l > /tmp/list (not updated)
> ls -l | lp (not updated)
In these cases, only the inode (containing file information) was
accessed, not the files themselves. Thus, access time was not updated.
shwake at raysnec
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