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From: jack@mcvax.uucp (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: File times in 4.[23]
Message-ID: <7053@boring.mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 07:11:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 20 07:11:30 1986
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Recently, we noticed that the behaviour of file access times under 4.3
is not according to the manual.  After checking the other times, we
found out that 4.2, 4.3 and the manual do complete different things:

Manual: access time changed by read, write and some others.
	modify time changed by write
	creation time changed by link, chmod, etc.
	
4.2:	access time changed by read *only*.
	modify time changed by write
	creation time changed by link, *but not chmod*.
	
4.3:	access time changed by read *only*.
	modify time changed by write
	creation time never changed (except by creation, of course).
	
Especially the fact that the access time doesn't change on write
looks like a bug to me....	
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.