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- From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Difference between mtime and ctime
- Message-ID: <3796@randvax.rand.org>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 19:22:23 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.220927.1334@wariat.org> <1992Sep15.150200.22325@bilver.uucp>
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- "Ctime" is the last time any change was made to the file, /including/
- permissions, ownership, links, etc., as well as modifications of the
- file contents. The field was added in Research V7 as a way of
- determining which inodes to include in backup dumps.
-
- -Ed Hall
- edhall@rand.org
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