[Aide] O_NOATIME for open(2)

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Mon Aug 8 15:04:43 EEST 2005


Vlada Macek wrote:
> there is a feature in Linux kernel since version 2.6.8 where root (and
> possibly owner of the file?) can open(2) files with O_NOATIME attribute.
> Then the access time of the hash-checked files wont be altered. Is Aide
> using or going to use this feature? It fits programs like Aide very well
> in my opinion.

Sure. If you can point me to some sample code, as well as a way to 
detect the support of O_NOATIME using autoconf, I'll try to include it 
into aide.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg



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