file read dates

[Jack Jansen]

In article <2952 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP writes:
>In article <183 at magic.ARPA> stewart at magic.UUCP (Larry Stewart) writes:
>
>> Who looks at file read dates?
>
>Anyone who wants to.
>
>> Do any more-or-less standard Unix applications look at them?
>
>E.g., ls -l, make:  Yes.
'Make' looks at file *read* dates? What does it do that for?

I thought make only looked at last update/creation times.
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	Jack Jansen, jack at mcvax.UUCP
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