note 81158 added to function.scandir

Just noticed a minor difference between scandir and readdir. When opening a directory and using readdir(), each file appears to be accessed in the process. This resets the "Last Accessed" time that you would get with fileatime(). With scandir(), the list is created and none of the files are accessed. Therefore the access times remain unchanged. I encountered this while writing a script to scan a directory and delete any file that hadn't been accessed in x time. Kind of defeated the purpose when the directory listing accessed every file... ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 67.85.183.129 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/81158 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81158/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81158/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81158/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81158/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81158/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81158/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81158 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/81158 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php