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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, 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?

as a varient of this, I use it to help determine what files are actually needed 
when building a chroot sandbox.

David Lang