Re: Atime not set on execution ?

1999-04-05 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 08:46:38 +0930, Ian West i...@apdata.com.au said: Thanks for the response, there isn't per chance an option to turn this on is there ? The way programs are executed (by intention) does not run through the code path which would touch the access time. The POSIX.1

Re: Atime not set on execution ?

1999-04-05 Thread Bruce Evans
The way programs are executed (by intention) does not run through the code path which would touch the access time. The POSIX.1 specification, IIRC, requires that the atime be updated when the program exits -- this would be very inefficient to do in our VM system. It requires only _marking_ for

Atime not set on execution ?

1999-04-04 Thread Ian West
Is it normal for atime not to be set on execution of a file ? I should have thought this would class as an access ? (I do not have the filesystem mounted -o noatime :-) This may be questions, but I am running current... Thankyou. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: Atime not set on execution ?

1999-04-04 Thread Bruce Evans
Is it normal for atime not to be set on execution of a file ? I should have thought this would class as an access ? It's normal in FreeBSD, although this breaks POSIX.1 conformance. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the

Re: Atime not set on execution ?

1999-04-04 Thread Ian West
Bruce Evans wrote: Is it normal for atime not to be set on execution of a file ? I should have thought this would class as an access ? It's normal in FreeBSD, although this breaks POSIX.1 conformance. Bruce Thanks for the response, there isn't per chance an option to turn this on is