Modifying file access time upon exec...

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Tue May 31 05:35:35 PDT 2005


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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