What new system calls do you want in BSD?

[brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu]

In article <1990Feb8.080645.4458 at semi.harris-atd.com> del at thrush.semi.harris-atd.com (Don Lewis) writes:
> In article <23449 at stealth.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >In article <1990Jan24.193433.3332 at semi.harris-atd.com> del at thrush.semi.harris-atd.com (Don Lewis) writes:
> >>   open(file,O_PEEK)
> >This could be a flag on any open, meaning simply ``update ctime rather
> >than atime or mtime.'' Crackers already know about utimes(); perhaps an
> >O_PEEK flag would educate inexperienced sysadmins.
> I don't want it to update the ctime either.

That would be a security violation.

---Dan