On Mon, 24 Jun 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I thought \Marked == atime < mtime, \Unmarked == atime >= mtime? STATUS
> opens the mbox file which updates atime, so how could it even work? You
> could fix it with utime() but that'd be ugly and racy.

Surprise.  There is quite a bit of such ugliness specifically for that
purpose.

Don't trust the stat man page for information on the conditions that
update atime and mtime.

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