linux-kernel - Re: Q: When do files in /proc change their times?

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Message-ID: <m2d377250w.fsf@igel.home>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:13:51 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@...uni-regensburg.de>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Q: When do files in /proc change their times?

"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@...uni-regensburg.de> writes:

> I have a simple question: When do files in /proc show changed modification
> times?

Whenever the inode is dropped from the inode cache and then recreated.
The proc fs always uses the current time to set the inode times.

Andreas.

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