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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Well, stat() syscall no longer returns sane value in st_atime, while
> all the userland stayed the same; only kernel changed. I believe that
> is ABI change.

No. 

If you want the old abi, use "strictatime" in your /etc/fstime.

No ABI changed. Just the default mount options changed to be what most 
people (especially non-specialists) would likely want.

Deal with it.

		Linus