Does the -A option to Fsys prevent any last access time writes to
the directory entry? The help is not clear, I want to prevent any
directory entry writes for a file anytime the file is written to or
appended to. I’m hoping that the only time it would be updated is
when a new extent has to be added.
Thanks,
Rob
Previously, Rob Davidson wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Does the -A option to Fsys prevent any last access time writes to
the directory entry? The help is not clear, I want to prevent any
directory entry writes for a file anytime the file is written to or
appended to. I’m hoping that the only time it would be updated is
when a new extent has to be added.
Well if a file is appended to without adding new extents, the
directory entry still needs to be updated with the new file
length.
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com
Rob Davidson <rdavidson@softwareremodeling.com> wrote:
Does the -A option to Fsys prevent any last access time writes to
the directory entry? The help is not clear, I want to prevent any
directory entry writes for a file anytime the file is written to or
appended to. I’m hoping that the only time it would be updated is
when a new extent has to be added.
Files have three times – access, modification and status change. The
access time represents when the file was last read – the -A option
tells Fsys to not update access times.
So, there is no option to do what you want.
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