fileatime Gets last access time of file &reftitle.description; intfileatime stringfilename Gets the last access time of the given file. &reftitle.parameters; filename Path to the file. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the time the file was last accessed, &return.falseforfailure;. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.errors; &fs.emits.warning.on.failure; &reftitle.notes; The atime of a file is supposed to change whenever the data blocks of a file are being read. This can be costly performance-wise when an application regularly accesses a very large number of files or directories. Some Unix filesystems can be mounted with atime updates disabled to increase the performance of such applications; USENET news spools are a common example. On such filesystems this function will be useless. ¬e.filesystem-time-res; ¬e.clearstatcache; &tip.fopen-wrapper.stat; &reftitle.seealso; filemtime fileinode date