[issue2056] HAMMER does not update file access time after read

["John Marino \(via DragonFly issue tracker\)" <sinknull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New submission from John Marino <dragon@marino.st>:

During the development of the upgrade of grep to version 2.7, it was observed 
that the HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME value was defined as 0 for the i386 platform and 
1 for the x86_64 platform.  The i386 platform filesystem was UFS and the other 
was configured with Hammer.

The grep configuration script uses standard gnu tests.  The one used to derive 
the O_NOATIME value is located at 
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~marino/fctnl_check.c

After some testing, swildner confirmed that Hammer doesn't update the file 
access time after data (more than 0 bytes) is read from a file.  He believes 
that this behavior is not simply a convention, but covered by a standard.  Since 
Hammer isn't exhibiting the expected behavior, it should be considered a bug.

Moreover, every gnu configure script that is run on a system with Hammer will 
produce the wrong value for O_NOATIME support, and thus may cause unexpected 
behavior when the software compiles.

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assignedto: dillon
messages: 9845
nosy: dillon, marino
priority: bug
status: unread
title: HAMMER does not update file access time after read

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