Uses for access time

[Mike McNally]

I am trying to convince some of my ``colleagues'' here that keeping track
of last-access times of files is a useful pursuit for an operating system.
The only good reasons I can come up with are

1.	it's nice for accounting/housekeeping
2.	it's a useful security feature (has anyone looked at my database 
	since I left yesterday?)

Are these reasons enough to justify the overhead (I think so)?  Are there
other reasons that I am overlooking?

-- 
Mike McNally of Lynx Real-Time Systems

uucp: lynx!m5 (maybe pyramid!voder!lynx!m5 if lynx is unknown)