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From: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Uses for access time
Message-ID: <3672@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 22:24:36 GMT
Reply-To: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally (Man from Mars))
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Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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Summary: Why do we need to maintain last-access times?

I am trying to convince some of my ``colleagues'' here that keeping track
of last-access times of files is a useful pursuit for an operating system.
The only good reasons I can come up with are

1.	it's nice for accounting/housekeeping
2.	it's a useful security feature (has anyone looked at my database 
	since I left yesterday?)

Are these reasons enough to justify the overhead (I think so)?  Are there
other reasons that I am overlooking?

-- 
Mike McNally of Lynx Real-Time Systems

uucp: lynx!m5 (maybe pyramid!voder!lynx!m5 if lynx is unknown)