Well, I was just paraphrasing from POSIX.1. The rational is roughly as
follows:
An inode's ctime gets updated any time the inode is modified (think of
it as the modification time for the inode itself; thus ctime gets
updated any time that mtime changes). Unless overridden with a mount
option, the parent directory's atime _would_ have been updated during
pathname resolution (although POSIX doesn't require this, it's done
under Linux).
-Tom
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