file read dates

[Chris Torek]

In article <6756 at boring.UUCP> jack at mcvax.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:

>In article <2952 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP writes:
>>In article <183 at magic.ARPA> stewart at magic.UUCP (Larry Stewart) writes:
>>> Who looks at file read dates?
>>E.g., ls -l, make.
>'Make' looks at file *read* dates? What does it do that for?

Oops, right, sorry about that.

(Actually, if I try I might be able to weasel out of this:  `make'
does a stat() on the file, which gets the access time as well as
the mod time.  Of course it does not *use* the access time for
anything....)
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