On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 4:06 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:00 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
On 27/10/20 8:24 am, Victor Stinner wrote:
I would rather want to kill the whole concept of "access" time in operating systems (or just configure the OS to not update it anymore). I guess that it's really hard to make it efficient and accurate at the same time...
Also it's kind of weird that just looking at data on the disk can change something about it. Sometimes it's an advantage to *not* have quantum computing!
And yet, it's of incredible value to be able to ask "now, where was that file... the one that I was looking at last week, called something about calendars, and it had a cat picture in it". Being able to answer that kinda depends on recording accesses one way or another, so the weirdnesses are bound to happen.
scandir is never going to answer that. Neither is a simple blind "access" time stored in filesystem metadata. ChrisA
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