access time

access time
a) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action.

Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.

b) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.

It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time...


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