>> 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.


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