04-04-2007
read() without changing atime ?
Hey,
First of all I want to know
How do I see the atime of a file ?? Whats the command ??
I think
ls -l shows the last modified time right ? Because when I use cat to read a file, the timestamp shown by ls -l does not change.
Its not ls -lu ! man ls did not help ! How do I see the last access time of a file in unix ???
Now my next question is:
My C program reads a file using read(). But I do not want the last access time of the file to change. So, I am using utime() to update the atime and mtime of the file back to what it was before the read.
But the problem, the update will fail if the program does not have write permissions on the file. If the file is read only, the program will not be able to modify its attributes (am I right ?).
can you guys please help me out here
thanks,
Varun
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
eio_futime
EIO_FUTIME(3) 1 EIO_FUTIME(3)
eio_futime - Change file last access and modification times
SYNOPSIS
resource eio_futime (mixed $fd, float $atime, float $mtime, [int $pri = EIO_PRI_DEFAULT], [callable $callback = NULL], [mixed $data =
NULL])
DESCRIPTION
eio_futime(3) changes file last access and modification times.
PARAMETERS
o $fd
- Stream, Socket resource, or numeric file descriptor, e.g. returned by eio_open(3)
o $atime
- Access time
o $mtime
- Modification time
o $pri
-The request priority: EIO_PRI_DEFAULT, EIO_PRI_MIN, EIO_PRI_MAX, or NULL. If NULL passed, $pri internally is set to
EIO_PRI_DEFAULT.
o $callback
-$callback function is called when the request is done. It should match the following prototype:
void callback(mixed $data, int $result[, resource $req]);
o $data
-is custom data passed to the request.
o $result
-request-specific result value; basically, the value returned by corresponding system call.
o $req
-is optional request resource which can be used with functions like eio_get_last_error(3)
o $data
- Arbitrary variable passed to $callback.
RETURN VALUES
eio_futime(3) returns request resource on success or FALSE on error.
SEE ALSO eio_utime.
PHP Documentation Group EIO_FUTIME(3)