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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does "file" change the creation time on some Unix systems?
Message-ID: <18057@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 20:43:57 GMT
References: <95@anasaz.UUCP> <2268@faline.bellcore.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <?> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>... of UNIX; no version I know of maintains the *creation* time of a
>>file. 

In article <2268@faline.bellcore.com> hill@faline.bellcore.com
(Chris Hill) writes:
>If so, to what "creation" time does the -c option of ls refer?

One existing only in the mind of whoever wrote the manual entry.

The manual entry has been fixed in time for the next BSD release (whenever
that may be).
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