help!

[Johannes Findeisen]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:14 +0200, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:49:01PM +0300, Eser Çetinkaya wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > In your documentation, it is written :
> >       "
> >       os.path.getatime(path)
> > 	Return the time of last access of path. The return value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the time <module-time.html> module). Raise os.error if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. New in version 1.5.2. Changed in version 2.3: If os.stat_float_times() returns True, the result is a floating point number. 
> > 	"
> > 
> > what do you mean by "access" ?  this function gives same outputs with the " os.path.getmtime(path) "  
> > What can change an acess time of a path different from modification?
> > Is there any mistakes in the implementation or am i missing some points?
> > 
> Just out of curiosity, does the filesystem support seperate a/m/c 
> times?

Hello Andreas,

some filesystems do support that. From the ext2 specification
( http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html ):

"As a response to these problems, two new filesytems were released in
Alpha version in January 1993: the Xia filesystem and the Second
Extended File System. The Xia filesystem was heavily based on the Minix
filesystem kernel code and only added a few improvements over this
filesystem. Basically, it provided long file names, support for bigger
partitions and support for the three timestamps."
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Regards

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Johannes Findeisen