Uses for access time

[Paul Raveling]

In article <10730 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) 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. I was once on a system whose very clever administrator wrote a
>>demon to archive any file not "accessed" in the last month. He soon
>>archived an executable I was exec'ing every day from my .profile.
>
>I tried this on several systems, and it seems that you are correct for
>BSD (at least the Ultrix and SunOS versions), but not for SysV (again at
>least Xenix and 2B2/300 flavors). I'm glad you pointed this out, since I
>do just what you mention on my machine (SysV).

	Another system:  HP-UX (version 5.5) DOES update
	last-access time on executing a file.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling at vaxa.isi.edu