NO_ATIME?

NO_ATIME?

Posted Jul 1, 2004 13:35 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: NO_ATIME? by Ross
Parent article: Kernel release status

From the glibc manual:

int O_NOATIME Macro
If this bit is set, read will not update the access time of the file.
See File Times. This is used by programs that do backups, so that
backing a file up does not count as reading it. Only the owner of the
file or the superuser may use this bit.

So, only the owner of the file or the superuser can use this flag.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/11/192 has the patch and discussion.

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