Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?

[Russell King]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:45:47AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Can I prevent mtime updates for all device files? Mounting /dev readonly
> would certainly help, but for that to work I'd have to move /dev to a
> different filesystem, right?

tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk.
Intentionally.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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