open(2) and O_NOATIME

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Oct 30 19:40:37 PDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:16:42PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> Em...  Allowing administrators to disable NOATIME would be a good thing,
> but wouldn't allowing arbitrary program to decide whether atime should
> be changed, be a serious security disaster?

Think of backup programs.

Joerg


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