When is a file considered to be accessed

[RPrinceton]

Hi Everyone,
I am using the code snippet below to obtain the last access timestamp of a file. It returns the same timestamp even though I have opened and closed the file with another application. My question is this. What constitutes a "File Access" i.e., when does the file access attribute get updated?
Thanks in advance.
RPrinceton

code snippet:
File::Stat qwFIELDS);
$mvFileNM = "abc";
stat($mvFileNM) or die "No $mvFileNM: $!";
$mvFileLastAccTS = localtime($st_atime);

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi,

No good answer to this one I'm afraid. Last access time is very dependant on which platform (operating system) you use it on.

I don't write code anymore but when I did I tried to write platform independant code - so I never used this.

Mike

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