At 10:40 AM 3/26/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sorry for wading in here, but I have about 5 minutes to spare, ... > >....SNIP............. >Keep in mind that their definition of access means "read" - not "modified". >
One more tidbit: - the man page for stat(2) states that the atime (access time) is set by the truncate system call and implies that the mtime (modification time) is not. This doesn't make sense to me since a file truncation is definitely a modification, not just an access. Could be that the man page is wrong but if it isn't then you need both atime and mtime, ( their struct names ), to determine when files have changed. If this is true then turning off access time may not be a good idea if anything truly needs to know when a file was last modified in any way. > >Quoting Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ..........SNIPPED............... >> >> But that is here. Things will likely be different where you are. :-) yep. >> >> -- >> Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Email may contain words incorrectly generated by Speech Recognition software. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 1997-2002. Use restricted to non-UCE uses. Any other use is an acceptance of the offer at www.ultranet.com/~jkinz/policy.html. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
