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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: Q: When do files in /proc change their times?
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"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:

> I have a simple question: When do files in /proc show changed modification
> times?

Whenever the inode is dropped from the inode cache and then recreated.
The proc fs always uses the current time to set the inode times.

Andreas.

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