On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 4:06 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:00 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> > wrote: > > > > On 27/10/20 8:24 am, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > I would > > > rather want to kill the whole concept of "access" time in operating > > > systems (or just configure the OS to not update it anymore). I guess > > > that it's really hard to make it efficient and accurate at the same > > > time... > > > > Also it's kind of weird that just looking at data on the > > disk can change something about it. Sometimes it's an > > advantage to *not* have quantum computing! > > > > And yet, it's of incredible value to be able to ask "now, where was > that file... the one that I was looking at last week, called something > about calendars, and it had a cat picture in it". Being able to answer > that kinda depends on recording accesses one way or another, so the > weirdnesses are bound to happen. > scandir is never going to answer that. Neither is a simple blind "access" time stored in filesystem metadata. ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/ZMNVRGZ7ZEC5EAKLUOX64R4WKHOLPF4O/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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