On Fri, 6 May 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:
> As we're being pedantic, mtime doesn't measure the time of last
> access, but rather the time of last modification - you may have
> been thinking of atime. And IME when people ask "How old is that
> file ?" they mean "When was it last modified?".
Is there anything that actually cares about atime? Whats the point of
it?
regards,
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