Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265871AbUFOTCa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:02:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265877AbUFOTC3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:02:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:54954 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265871AbUFOTBr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:01:47 -0400 To: Cesar Eduardo Barros Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support References: <20040612011129.GD1967@flower.home.cesarb.net> <20040614224006.GD1961@flower.home.cesarb.net> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team Date: 15 Jun 2004 16:01:23 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20040614224006.GD1961@flower.home.cesarb.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 12 On Jun 14, 2004, Cesar Eduardo Barros 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. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/