$file = "/etc/exports"; # <!-- note the filename
$t1 = -A $file;
$t2 = localtime((stat( $file ))[8]);
print "t1 =$t1, t2=$t2\n";
__END__
t1 =72.6357060185185, t2=Tue May 18 00:54:13 2004

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Seems fine to me. HOWEVER, it appears that my /etc/hosts file is accessed for just about any network address my machine connects with (at least for every page I open in firefox), so that might be the cause of your problem.

update: Just to close the loophole here, I'd like to demonstrate that calling -A after stat() does not give a different result: 

$file = "/etc/exports";
$t1 = -A $file;
$t2 = localtime((stat( $file ))[8]);
$t3 = -A $file;
print "t1 =$t1, t2=$t2, t3=$t3\n";
__END__
t1 =72.6449537037037, t2=Tue May 18 00:54:13 2004, t3=72.6449537037037

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In reply to Re: More on Stat() vs -A by Joost
in thread More on Stat() vs -A by Dismas

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