Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Difference of 'mtime' and 'ctime'
Message-ID: <1165@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 21:45:30 GMT
References: <9316@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <21749@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>the svid entry differs from you message. It states
>
>	-ctime n	True if the file *INODE* has been changed in n days

Which, in practice, tends to mean "the file has been changed in n days,
or the file has been renamed in n days, or a link to the file has been
added or removed in n days, or the permissions have been changed in n
days, or the owner has been changed in n days, or...." Basically, either
the file itself has been changed, or any of the changable attributes
that "stat" returns, with the possible exception of the accessed time,
has been changed.