From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi) Subject: Re: VMS Date: 29 Jul 1993 15:20:06 GMT
In article 12760@eecs.nwu.edu, hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) writes:
>In article <1265@felix.sublink.org> of comp.os.linux,
> eb@felix.Sublink.Org (Enrico Badella) writes:
>>
>> The only possible critic to the Unix filesystem is that the creation date
>> of a file is missing; it could be usefull for security considerations.
>>
>> Another 2 cents...
>>
>
>The standard UNIX filesystems store three dates: file creation, last
>file modification, and last file access. Is it something else you are
>looking for? Note that this is *not* true for the minix, extfs and
>xiafs filesystems on Linux. It *is* true for ext2fs.
Actually, at least on the UNIXes I am familiar with (e.g. SunOS), the
ls -lc option gives you the last "mode change", not the time of creation.
The directory entry does not have a "creation time", just a "status change"
time, which may be the last "chmod" rather than the time of creation.