Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!tekcrl!terryl
From: terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does "file" change the creation time on some Unix systems?
Message-ID: <4217@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 17:21:31 GMT
References: <95@anasaz.UUCP> <2268@faline.bellcore.com> <1850@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: terryl@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1850@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>
> >>If what you say is completely true, you must be running a pretty bizarre
> >>version of UNIX; no version I know of maintains the *creation* time of a
> >>file. 
> >
> >If so, to what "creation" time does the -c option of ls refer?
>
>It doesn't refer to *ANY* "creation" time, it refers to the inode change
>time.  If your manual says it refers to the creation time, either your
>manual is wrong or you're running a pretty bizarre version of UNIX.


     Well, then, Guy, I guess you can call 4.3 BSD+NFS "a pretty bizarre
version of UNIX"; to wit, I quote part of the standard ls(1) man page:

	-c   Use time of file creation for sorting or printing.

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