[Popcon-developers] status of executables?

Wed Mar 2 23:12:51 UTC 2011

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:14:11PM -0700, jeff at linuxwest.com wrote:
> <html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Greetings nobile Popcon group;</div><div><br></div><div>How does Popcon know which binary executables have been used? Is /usr/bin/stat (or equiviliant) the method Popcon uses to get access times?</div><div><br></div><div> Running a simple test executable on my system does not cause the executable's status to change (I am not using noatime either). Does it work for any of you? Or, do you use some other method which is effective? Suppose a I have a package which consists of one executable and I use it frequently, will Popcon notice it?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Most sincerely,</div><div>Jeff Wicks<br></div></span></body></html>

Hello Jeff,

popcon use the atime. Unfortunately with recent kernels, this only work 100%
correctly if the mount option strictatime is used. Otherwise the atime is not
100% accurate (I think the kernel default to relatime)

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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