manually touch atime when reading a mbox file
The only common use of atime left is local mail agents leaving a mark on mbox file after the mail has been read. And, since POSIX-2008, it is possible to use futimens() to alter atime even on filesystems mounted with noatime. There's no extra cost for doing this on when atime updates are enabled: the inode will be dirty already.
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