Thumbnail standard

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry shalehperry at attbi.com
Fri May 23 03:47:46 EEST 2003


>
> We do not current rely on the mtime of the thumbnail. In addition, unix
> already keeps track of the latest access to a file. Its called "atime"
> (stored in st_atime in struct stat). Check your thumbnail directory out
> with the "stat" command. Or try e.g. "ls -ltu ~/.thumbnails/normal/" to
> see which thumbnails you used most recently.

do not count on atime for any file.  NFS does not always keep it up to date 
and many laptop users disable atime writing to prevent their disks from 
spinning.




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