Re: how to get/set the atime of a file?
Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
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On 2008-02-19, sunway <[email protected]> wrote: > mutt use atime/ctime to determine whether there is new mail, however, > statusd_mail will change the actime periodly, that cause mutt always think there is no new mail. Mutt is lame, if uses atime. It should use just ctime. (It is possible to *lie* about the atime by setting it to another value with the utimes syscall. I consider such very bad behaviour rid with race conditions, that should be avoided in normal circumstances.) -- Tuomo