Re: patch not updating atime

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:08:31PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Even more to the point, its taking it directly from the VM page
>     cache, the filesystem is not touched at all.
> 
>     I think the standards allow us to update the atime at munmap() time,
>     but I haven't investigated how best to implement such a thing in the
>     kernel.  We might have to add a new VOP API call.

This discussion is covered in great detail on the NetBSD tech-pkg list.
Everyone interested in this should take a look there :-)

Joerg