On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 19:39:09 +0000,
"Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk> wrote:
> >I thought it was as well to begin with - but in "ls" on Linux there's
> >a separate "atime" and "access" value to the "show time" parameter in
> >"ls" - so if "atime" is the last access time, what's "access" mean?
atime includes at least reads of the file. I don't know if it also includes
writes or stats.
> Hmm ok just done a bit of experimenting on this - "atime" and "access"
> show exactly the same information - "mtime" is an invalid value
> according to my Fedora 5 system. Confused.
mtime is the time you normally see, so there may not be a separate option
for it on ls.