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From: dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: stealth technology for find(1)
Message-ID: <3624@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 89 05:05:33 GMT
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	I believe the man page is referring to namei() (kernel) directory
searches, and not read(2) (readdir()) "searches." The following does not
change the atime on "hose", even though the kernel searched it to find
"bag":
	cat /tmp/hose/bag

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