Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support

From: Matthias Schniedermeyer
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 14:35:24 EST


On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:01:23PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2004, Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The atime was never intended as an auditing feature (if it were, utimes
> > and related functions would be root only).
>
> But utimes updates the inode modification time, so you can still tell
> something happened to the file.

No.




Bis denn

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