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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Uses for access time
Message-ID: <2651@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 01:48:43 GMT
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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.
You should qualify your statement with "not ALWAYS updated", unless you specify
a specific system. This machine obviously updates access time upon execution:
$ ls -ul /bin/cat
-rwxrwxr-x 1 bin bin 10356 May 7 20:38 /bin/cat
$ ls -ul /bin/cat
-rwxrwxr-x 1 bin bin 10356 May 7 20:38 /bin/cat
$ /bin/cat /etc/TIMEZONE
TZ=CDT5
export TZ
$ ls -ul /bin/cat
-rwxrwxr-x 1 bin bin 10356 May 7 20:42 /bin/cat
$ uname -a
ttrdc ttrdc 2.0v3 1208 3B-20S
Gurus: Which systems DO update access time upon execution (presuming it's
possible at all, e.g., not on a readonly filesystem)? Which systems don't?
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