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? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
