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From: rroot@edm.UUCP (uucp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Uses for access time
Message-ID: <3096@edm.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 15:27:03 GMT
References: <40@jetson.UUCP>
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Organization: Unexsys Systems, Edmonton,AB.
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From article <40@jetson.UUCP>, by john@jetson.UUCP (John Owens):
> In article <4054@mtgzz.UUCP>, avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed) writes:
>> Unfortunately, "access time" is NOT updated when an executable is
>> executed.
> 
> Interesting!  It certainly is updated on SCO Xenix ("System V", but
It is also updated on an IRIS (mostly sysV with a BSD file system). I know,
because of a typo in crontab that resulted in the removal of all files
with an atime <1day. It took a couple of hurs to figure out what was wrong
because all of the 'necessary' binaries & data files were still there
(thank god I'd used tar that day... :-] )
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