Re: Modifying file access time upon exec...

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_cse.Buffalo.EDU)
Date: 05/31/05

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    To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:35:28 -0400

    On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:57 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
    > Hi Marc, Ken,
    >
    > > > I'm not sure why you say NFS filesystems can't be mounted with noatime.
    > >
    > > No, I'm saying that there are filesystems you wouldn't want to mount
    > > with noatime (/tmp, /var/tmp, /var/mail, /var/spool/*) because some
    > > software depends on the atime being adjusted.
    >
    > I thought that, according to the goal of this patch, the "noatime"
    > option you were talking about would be in fact a "noatime-on-exec"
    > option. Access time would be still updated on other cases.
    > Am I wrong ?

    This is correct. Other than changing it so that the atime on executable
    files gets modified when they get executed this patch should not change
    anything. 

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                                                Ken Smith
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