BSD vi/view resets inode ctime: why?

[Chris Torek]

In article <4801 at brl-adm.ARPA> rex at erebus (Rex Sanders) writes:
>Why does 4.2/4.3 BSD vi/view, exited without changing the file, update the
>inode change time?

It read the file.  This changes the inode access time, which means
the inode was changed, so the inode (though not the file itself)
must be dumped.  If there were two `changed' fields in an inode,
dump could be smarter and dump just the inode.
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