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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: file read dates
Message-ID: <2999@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 22:10:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 22:10:36 1986
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In article <6756@boring.UUCP> jack@mcvax.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:

>In article <2952@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP writes:
>>In article <183@magic.ARPA> stewart@magic.UUCP (Larry Stewart) writes:
>>> Who looks at file read dates?
>>E.g., ls -l, make.
>'Make' looks at file *read* dates? What does it do that for?

Oops, right, sorry about that.

(Actually, if I try I might be able to weasel out of this:  `make'
does a stat() on the file, which gets the access time as well as
the mod time.  Of course it does not *use* the access time for
anything....)
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