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From: carlton@apollo.HP.COM (Carlton B. Hommel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl under SR10.1; trouble with "stat"
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Date: 4 Feb 90 04:30:00 GMT
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A summary of the problem:  The "ctime" and "mtime" reported
by stat(2) are different for a newly created file, when you
would expect them to be the same.  Ie, 
    stat.st_mtime: 634104703 stat.st_ctime: 634104704

I'm pretty sure that it is a byproduct of our implementation
of the open(2) system call, but I'm just a perl fanatic, and
not a systems hacker.

This problem still exists at our hot-off-the-presses sr10.2+
baselevel, so I've posted it as a bug.  If you want a formal
answer, then please submit an APR.  (See "man mkapr" for help.)

Carl Hommel
carlton@apollo.hp.com
"I could write a perl script to do that for you..."