Re: [9fans] Re: patch/list sorry/proc-mtime

[matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk>]

> Maybe in someone else's humble opinion the modification time
> (there is no creation time in Plan 9) of /proc should be the time of
> the last call to fork or exits, i.e. the last time the directory actually
> changed.  There isn't an obvious value here.
>
> Overloading mtime for all these purposes
> is misguided, as none of them are actually modification times.


Sure, I don't disagree that there are any number of "good" values one
could pop into the mtime & atime. That's the point of discussing it,
"what do people think should go in the mtime & atime"

On FreeBSD they are both the current system time for /proc

My thoughts, but no action, on the subject is that it is perhaps the
concept of mtime and atime that are wrong. They seem to be terms welded
to a disk based system.

If there are plenty of values that *could* be available, shouldn't we be
open to finding a way to expose them ?