Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support

Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-15T19:02:30Z

On Jun 14, 2004, Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br> wrote:

> The atime was never intended as an auditing feature (if it were, utimes
> and related functions would be root only).

But utimes updates the inode modification time, so you can still tell
something happened to the file.

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