Answer by Gilles for What can you do to a file without triggering the...
You can read the file. That will update its access time (unless disabled with a mount option like noatime), but not its inode change time. Anything else, whether it's changing the file's data, changing...
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Presumably by "change stat" you mean the ctime of the file? In which case the simple answer is, not very much... The ctime records when the file's inode (essentially it's metadata) was last changed so...
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What can you do to a file without triggering the "Change" stat? For instance, it appears that simply changing a bit will trigger Change.
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