[plug] Re: access time/modification time

[Leon Brooks]

Jason Nicholls wrote:
>> Almost certainly game over player 2, as the access time would track the
>> mod time. I suspect I would be "tail -f"ing the mail log from inittab
>> and touching my own status files as appropriate.

> I just did a little test. It involved a file last modified on the
> 23rd July. I echoed something into the file and checked the modified
> time (yup updated) but the access time didn't change.

Oh, good. It didn't work that way last time I checked (ummm, kernel...
2.0.29? something like that; poor old-fogey me doing serious mental
archaeology to remember the time I checked that).

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