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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Unsure why access time on a directory change isn't changing Post 303037895 by MadeInGermany on Friday 16th of August 2019 02:35:08 AM
Old 08-16-2019
Yes, the OS matters. Recent Linux distros do not alter atime as often as Unix does (and older Linux did).
Also the file system type matters.
Code:
cat /etc/*release || uname -sr
df .

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utime.h(3HEAD)                                                        Headers                                                       utime.h(3HEAD)

NAME
utime.h, utime - access and modification times structure SYNOPSIS
#include <utime.h> DESCRIPTION
The <utime.h> header declares the structure utimbuf, which includes the following members: time_t actime /* access time */ time_t modtime /* modification time */ The times are measured in seconds since the Epoch. The type time_t is defined as described in <sys/types.h>. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
utime(2), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 utime.h(3HEAD)
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