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From: rees@MAILGW.CC.UMICH.EDU (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Ohhhhh Boyyyy!!
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Date: 19 Aug 88 04:44:27 GMT
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Reply-To: rees@caen.engin.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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    If anyone out there is using SR9.7 or higher, have you noticed
    that when you use the UNIX command "file", that the file
    in question has its modification time altered to :
            Jan 1 2001

I just tried it on a 9.7 node and didn't get the results you report.
This problem is usually due to a bug in the sytem V 'file', which tries
to reset the last-accessed time after reading the file (kind of a stupid
thing to do, in my opinion).  It assumes the access time immediately
follows the mod time in the stat buf, which isn't necessarily true.

You shouldn't get this behavior unless you have your own sys V 'file'
that you've compiled for bsd.  As far as I can tell, the domain/ix
file commands don't have this bug.

What version of aegis, what version of domain/ix (or domain/os), and
which flavor of 'file' were you using?
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