From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17357 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2000 17:33:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Feb 2000 17:33:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 27498 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2000 17:33:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9537 Received: (qmail 27490 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2000 17:33:05 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: atime (Re: PATCH: prompt escape tests) References: <200002020834.JAA09905@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <20000202105104.D31919@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by AKEMI 1.13.2 - =?ISO-2022-JP?B?Ig==?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQTA0Y0s8GyhCIg==?=) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Tanaka Akira Date: 03 Feb 2000 02:33:02 +0900 In-Reply-To: Dan Nelson's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:51:04 -0600" Message-ID: User-Agent: Chao-gnus/6.12.5 AKEMI/1.13.2 (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQTAbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCNGNLPBsoQg==?=) FLAM-DOODLE/1.12.6 (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCM3cbKEI=?= 10R4.0/5.0) Emacs/20.4 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) In article <20000202105104.D31919@dan.emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson writes: > I think it's a POSIX requirement that atime must be updated. Hm. > Lots of unixes do let let you disable atime updates though (usually by > mount -o noatime). It's useful for news servers or FTP archives that > do a lot of reading and don't really care about the atime field. I > looked on my Solaris 2.6 box and there doesn't seem to be a way to > disable atime updates. 7 or 8 might very well be able to, though. It's server side config and not related to this problem. Linux produces NFS requests by `touch t': 02:26:54.406581 thorax.jaist.ac.jp.1258203975 > crane.nfs: 112 lookup fh 32,10/568960 "t" (ttl 62, id 8982) 02:26:54.408238 thorax.jaist.ac.jp.1258203976 > crane.nfs: 144 create fh 32,10/568960 "t" (ttl 62, id 8983) 02:26:54.437421 thorax.jaist.ac.jp.1258203977 > crane.nfs: 136 setattr fh 32,10/569010 (ttl 62, id 8986) and by `cat t': 02:27:08.065326 thorax.jaist.ac.jp.1258203978 > crane.nfs: 112 lookup fh 32,10/568960 "t" (ttl 62, id 9002) 02:27:08.067635 thorax.jaist.ac.jp.1258203979 > crane.nfs: 104 getattr fh 32,10/569010 (ttl 62, id 9003) Some requests (especialy requests by `cat t') are omitted by cache. Anyway, the server cannot updates atime since the client doesn't send read requests. -- Tanaka Akira