Re: Mysterious atime changes

In reply to: Jon Schneider : "Mysterious atime changes"
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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy_at_mips.inka.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:26:08 UTC

Jon Schneider:

> A problem came up with Solidworks whinging about clocks. Like so many 
> error messages the real problem was something else specifically atimes 
> of files getting set to Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 and this happens in front 
> of my eyes on open files.

That is not a random time.  If that's UTC, then it corresponds
exactly to a time_t value of 0x7fffffff, i.e., INT_MAX.

(I have no idea what could cause this.)

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de