Package: star
Version: 1.5a67-1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
the purpose of the -atime flag (while creating an archive) is
Reset access time of files after storing them to tarfile. On
Solaris 2.x, (if invoked by root) star uses the _FIOSATIME ioctl
to do this. This enables star not to trash the ctime while
resetting the atime of the files.
(from star(1))
On Linux this modifies the ctime.
You could circumvent that by using
open(path, O_RDONLY | O_NOATIME);
Then the atime isn't updated at all and so there is no need to reset it.
(Moreover you might get a small performance improvement.)
Best regards
Uwe
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Debian Release: 4.0
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages star depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
star recommends no packages.
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