I was wondering whether or not fileatime counts as having accessed the file?
I’m assuming not as the function should really only need to access the filesystem metadata for the file rather than the file itself – is this correct?
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I was wondering whether or not fileatime counts as having accessed the file?
I’m assuming not as the function should really only need to access the filesystem metadata for the file rather than the file itself – is this correct?
That is correct. The underlying
stat()call does not modify the file metadata.