#15102: stat() modifies the access time of an existing file.
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Reporter: return_0e | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: System/POSIX | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by bga):
This is a BFS issue. It does not store access time anywhere and , instead,
simple use the local time whenever stat is called on a file.
Form the Linux stat man page:
{{{
The field st_atime is changed by file accesses, for example, by execve(2),
mknod(2), pipe(2), utime(2) and read(2) (of more than zero bytes). Other
routines, like mmap(2), may or may not update st_atime.
}}}
it does not explicitly say that but it is implied that stat should not
change atime. Maybe BFS should be changed to match this behavior?
Returning simply the time stat happened is a neat trick but also a bit
useless.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15102#comment:1>
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