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- From: twp@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Tony Payne CSD)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: RM LOGIC
- Message-ID: <1559@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 02:59:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.131722.27419@polari> <MERLYN.92Nov2131214@romulus.reed.edu> <MERLYN.92Nov3110424@romulus.reed.edu>
- Organization: Co-Cam Computer Group, Oz
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- >Someone told me in private mail that their find has a -ctime switch.
- >Big deal. "ctime" is not *creation* time; it is *inode change* time.
- >I have yet to see a Unix-like O/S that has a *creation* time (and I've
- >been hacking Unix since 1977).
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- Nor have I ever seen a UNIX beastie like that. It seems to boil down to the
- fact that most files don't ever have their inode changed, except when they are
- created. So in most cases inode change time corresponds to creation time.
- Just another idiotic historical hangover.
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- Cheers
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