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UWA week 42 (2nd semester, week 12) ↓

2nd project last_accessed time (both)

12:55pm Thu 17th Oct, Joshua N.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> Hi, in the project description it says that "time will increase by 1 for each entry in the file". So, do we need to increase last accessed time if we decide to ignore an entry that already exists in RAM?

Honestly it could be interpreted either way, but I don't think you need to increase the last accessed time if you are ignoring the entry since it would presumably take no time to ignore an entry (as opposed to loading an entry onto RAM), but you can write either as an assumption.

> Thank you for your help!