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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD vi/view resets inode ctime: why?
Message-ID: <15037@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 19:55:18 EST
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>As soon as you read a file, the access time is changed. If the access
>time changes, the kernel has no choice but to update the change
>status time.

Wrong.  The kernel can leave the change time alone, if it wants.  It does
not consider changing the access time to be a "change".