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...supposed to suppress updates of a file's Access Time attribute when browsing but even read-only accesses with NotePad or plain copy leave no traces. However, if you cp or cat (or for that matter tar) a file on an smbmounted Win share, the Access Time is updated regardless of the setting of NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate. This produces an annoying warning message for users of MS VC++ Studio that the file they've been editing had been changed by another program and prompt them to reload it. Does anyone know how to work around this problem?

...-| >> name) get changed. -| >> reading file does not change any timestamp at least when -| I read a -| >> text file with Notepad.exe. -| > -| > -| > That's strange, because it should do just that, it does -| here. Are you -| > shure you didn't set NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate in your registry? -| -| -| Interesting... I've tried to read the same file today and -| it got access -| timestamp updated... Probably, there's some caching gets -| involved - that -| there some time have to pass before reading will result in access -| timestamp updated. A...