From: lingnau@math.uni-frankfurt.de (Anselm Lingnau) Subject: File creation date in UNIX (was: Re: VMS) Date: 31 Jul 1993 11:30:43 GMT
In article <1993Jul28.215858.12760@eecs.nwu.edu>, hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H.
Peter Anvin N9ITP) writes:
> The standard UNIX filesystems store three dates: file creation, last
> file modification, and last file access.
This is a widespread misconception. UNIX filesystems do *not* normally store
the file creation date. The `ctime' member of the stat structure is often
taken as such, but indeed it records the time of the last i-node *change*.
Anselm
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