Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 16:56:02 EST


Matthias, replying to Alexandre:
> > But utimes updates the inode modification time, so you can still tell
> > something happened to the file.
>
> No.

A less terse answer:

Utimes modifies the inode ctime - time of last inode change.

So, yes, you can still something happened to the file.

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