Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!husc6!ut-sally!std-unix From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.std.unix Subject: Re: public-domain implementation of V8 "newer" Message-ID: <6269@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 20:37:05 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.6269 Posted: Thu Nov 6 20:37:05 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Nov-86 23:26:35 EST Organization: IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee Lines: 10 Approved: jsq@sally.utexas.edu From: gwyn@brl.arpa (VLD/VMB) (Douglas A. Gwyn) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 86 18:48:26 EST The 8th Ed. UNIX manual says that a zero return code is returned if the first file's mod time is AT LEAST AS RECENT as the second's (as well as under other circumstances). I take this to mean that in case of an exact tie, the first file is considered "newer" than the second. I don't know why it's specified this way. Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 45