Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjan_at_infradead.org)
Date: 02/28/05

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    To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005@gmx.net>
Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:47:58 +0100

    On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 00:51 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > is it intentional that
    > echo foo >/dev/hda1
    > doesn't update the mtime of the device node, but
    > echo foo >/dev/tty10
    > does update the mtime of the device node?
    >
    > And no, mounting with the noatime flag doesn't help because the
    > mtime is updated. IIRC some time ago this behaviour was different,
    > but I could easily be mistaken.

    devices are tricky in general in this respect, /dev may be mounted read
    only for example ;)

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