Re: why is the access time of dirs not chaged?

[Jon Haugsand <Jon-H.Haugsand@norges-bank.no>]

* Dan Jacobson
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well.
>
> If I do "cat dir/file", why is the access time of dir not changed, as
> seen with stat(1) or ls -ul?  Only if we do "ls dir" will dir's access
> time be changed.  Maybe it is on purpose to avoid too much disk
> access.  In version 7 Unix did they do that too?

Maybe because it isn't read as per policy.  I mean, you can have
access to the file with only access bit x set on the directory.

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