[email protected] (Aiman Najjar) writes: >My question: what is the correct way to address this, do we: 1) add >native support for `O_NOATIME`
Access times are a feature of the underlying filesystem. There is no way to handle that in a syscall or syscall emulation layer alone, if the filesystem doesn't implement such a feature. Even in Linux, O_NOATIME is optional and behaviour depends on the specific filesystem. So a valid implementation could just ignore the flag (which could be done in the compat layer, if it isn't already). N.B. I also doubt that such a stealth access feature should be available to a regular account. It needs at least a mount option (similar to noatime) that enables the behaviour.
