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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I set a file's creation date?
Message-ID: <7273@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 00:49:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.7273
Posted: Wed Jul  1 00:49:50 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 01:47:04 EDT
References: <4280@caip.rutgers.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 13
Keywords: ioctl's fcntl's ??
Summary: There is none

In article <4280@caip.rutgers.edu> brisco@caip.rutgers.edu (Thomas
Paul Brisco) writes:
>To test a program I'm trying to build a lot of files with
>varying creation dates -- trouble is; I can't seem to find any
>references to it.

Unix files (V6, V7, 2BSD, 3BSD, 4BSD, Sys3, Sys5 release any) do
not carry creation dates, only access (atime), modify (mtime), and
inode-change (ctime) dates.  Ctime is often erroneously called
the file creation time.  Its real purpose is for backups.
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