From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757904AbXD0Xd6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:33:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757903AbXD0Xd5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:33:57 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:43558 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757904AbXD0Xd4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:33:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4632885F.4080600@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:33:51 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulrich Drepper CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation References: <200704262249.l3QMn5C2021588@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070426162530.bc30a1bb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46313F99.6080402@zytor.com> <46314A08.9000209@redhat.com> <46314AAD.9010300@zytor.com> <46314C3B.3040908@redhat.com> <4632842F.20101@zytor.com> <463287B2.7070100@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <463287B2.7070100@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ulrich Drepper wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> The main use of atime seems to be to figure out when something can be >> automatically deleted. Anyone else have other usage scenarios? > > It's not atime which cannot be set, it's ctime. You're right, my brainfart. -hpa