Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265875AbUFOTcm (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:32:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265889AbUFOTcl (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:32:41 -0400 Received: from pdbn-d9bb9ee6.pool.mediaWays.net ([217.187.158.230]:19974 "EHLO citd.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265875AbUFOTcW (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:32:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:32:05 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Cesar Eduardo Barros , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support Message-ID: <20040615193205.GA25131@citd.de> References: <20040612011129.GD1967@flower.home.cesarb.net> <20040614224006.GD1961@flower.home.cesarb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 894 Lines: 27 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:01:23PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > 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. No. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. - 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/