Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!gorodish!guy
From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: stat(2) man entry & kernel inconsistent
Message-ID: <41163@sun.uucp>
Date: 5 Feb 88 20:08:12 GMT
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Keywords: access time

> Is the bug in the documentation or the kernel?

Almost certainly in the documentation.  S5R1, S5R3.2, 4.[23]BSD, and a
non-vanilla V7 whose source happens to be lying around all set the modified
time but *not* the accessed time on a "write".
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com