atimes

Jason jkenner@mindspring.com
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:42:34 +0000


plug@arcticmail.com wrote:
> 
> The atime is only changed when the contents of a
> file are read, so a "find -print" or "ls -l" have
> no effect on atime.  Something like
> "find / -type f -exec file {} \;" would change
> the atime, though.

Doesnt that access the actual contents of every DIRECTORY on the drive
tho? So, there would be a lot of access time updating to do...



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