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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: find
Message-ID: <10650073@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 89 21:39:08 GMT
References: <21721@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> In article <21727@adm.BRL.MIL> drears@pica.army.mil
> (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC)) writes:
> >atime - The last time the file was read or modified.  The system
> >calls creat(2), mknod(2), utimes(2), read(2), and write(2) will affect the
> >atime value.
> 
> Some editions of stat(2) make this claim.  They are wrong.  (The man
> page is fixed in 4.4BSD, and might be fixed in 4.3 and/or 4.3-tahoe.)
> Namely, read(2) should be deleted to correct the list.

But it's not complete.  For instance, the system call open() affects
atime.

Note also that POSIX.1-1988 requires (on page 112 of the softcover book)
the read() function to mark the st_atime field for update.

Dave