[2549] in Athena Bugs
Re: VS6.3A newsyslog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 12 11:43:38 1989
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 11:43:19 -0400
To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: David Krikorian's message of Wed, 12 Jul 89 04:51:09 -0400,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
The way accounting works is that you give the kernel a file-name, which
it will then lookup its inode and reference the inode directly from then
on. The name lookup is only performed once; why have the kernel
constantly opening/closing, since this takes time?
A way to get around this is to turn off accounting and turn it back on
again... which effectively does a close and another open/lookup.
-Richard
