pass / gnupg is caching?

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Fri Jan 9 09:49:46 CET 2026


El día jueves, enero 08, 2026 a las 04:47:18p. m. +0100, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users escribió:

> Hi Matthias,
> 
> > i.e. the 2nd time does not modify the read access time of the file. Why?
> 
> I don't think that pass as a shell script caches anything.  Neither does
> gpg.  I think you need to have "strictatime" in the mount options to get
> accurate atimes.  The default seems to be "relatime" (Access time is
> only updated if the previous access time was earlier than the current
> modify or change time).

Hi Werner,

Yes. The file system in my phone is mounted as:

purism at pureos:~$ mount | grep ext4
/dev/mapper/crypt_root on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)

Thanks for the hints.

	matthias

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