Re: [bug #33724] Find command is changing the access time of directory

[Paul Eggert]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> So regarding gnulib, there are 2 alternatives:
>
> a) rename FTS_NOATIME to FTS_NOATIME, and add a retry to open/openat
> in each place when that was using O_NOATIME and we got EPERM.

I didn't quite get the point of the rename; those two identifiers look identical 
to me.

The original commit said that FTS_NOATIME was intended to be best effort, and 
that FTS_NOATIME would be ineffective in some cases. If that's the intent, 
retrying would implement it.

> b) remove FTS_NOATIME - the attached would do that ... in the naive
> hope that no other project has picked it up yet (which I doubt).

If nobody's using FTS_NOATIME it'd probably be better to remove it, yes.

It'd be nice to hear Eric's opinion.