Uses for access time

Sun May 8 21:08:19 AEST 1988

In article <40 at jetson.UUCP> john at jetson.UUCP (John Owens) writes:
>In article <4054 at mtgzz.UUCP>, avr at mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed) writes:
>> Unfortunately, "access time" is NOT updated when an executable is
>> executed.
>
>Interesting!  It certainly is updated on SCO Xenix ("System V", but
>internals still have v7 vestiges), v7, 4.2BSD, and 4.3BSD.  Is it
>not updated on execution under "real" System V?  What OS version are
>you (mtgzz!avr) running?

Access time IS updated on real System V when a binary or shell script
is executed.

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