This sounds harmless, but it actually forces a write of the inode's atime, which means a lot of painful and unnecessary disk i/o on some filesystems. Should be a good speedup on games that read a lot of small files on Unix.
PhysicsFS; a portable, flexible file i/o abstraction. http://icculus.org/physfs/ Please see the docs directory for documentation, licensing, and information.
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