>> How about if we suggest instead that laptop owners mount their file >> systems with the noatime option? That solves the problem in general, >> rather than forcing app writers to modify cat, ls, sh, etc. > > It'd be ok if there were a noatime mount option that applied only to > directories.
That's the "nodiratime" option of mount(8), on recent-enough Linux kernels that support it. I hope that suffices. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
