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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Uses for access time
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Date: 6 May 88 00:41:59 GMT
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> I tried this on several systems, and it seems that you are correct for
> BSD (at least the Ultrix and SunOS versions), but not for SysV (again at
> least Xenix and 2B2/300 flavors).

I tried it on a 3B2/400 running S5R3.1 and the access time *is* updated when
you run a program; it should be, since I consider running a program to count as
an "access".  Maybe the releases you were running were broken, or maybe older
versions of UNIX didn't do this but somebody thought better of it later?