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From: mcb@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Michael Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Stat(2) on HP-9000/550
Message-ID: <5570192@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 24 May 89 17:06:58 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> But from the documentation, st_atime should contain the
> time of last access.  So it would seem that these variables are not being
> updated properly.  Is there some other way to do this or maybe I'm doing
> something wrong here?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Your observation is correct - device file time st_atime isn't handled
correctly for device files.  I believe that the touch(1) command will
change them.

Michael Berry   ARPA:mcb%hpfcde@hplabs.HP.COM   UUCP:hplabs!hpfcla!mcb