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From: rex%erebus@adm.UUCP
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Subject: BSD vi/view resets inode ctime: why?
Message-ID: <4801@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 20:35:53 EST
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Why does 4.2/4.3 BSD vi/view, exited without changing the file, update the
inode change time?  Dump finds many more files to dump because of this, when
the file contents/permissions/etc. have not changed.  This makes incremental
dumps much larger than seems necessary.  Sorry if this has been asked/answered
before, but my access to unix-wizards is sporadic.

-- Rex
   rex@erebus.stanford.edu