Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: chtim - change time stamps Message-ID: <1184@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 20:43:42 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1184 Posted: Sat Aug 10 20:43:42 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 08:32:49 EDT References: <2045@sunybcs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 11 The "bug" listed in the chtim man page is not a bug: there is no file creation time stamp in the Unix file system. The "ctime" field that stat reports is the "last change to inode" time, used for systemy things like backups. (Perhaps it once *was* the create time; I don't see how it could be so thorougly misdocumented otherwise. But dump must know when the file was "chmod"ed or even "utimes"ed, so that restore can put those changes back.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland