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Re: ctime: creation or change time?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:30:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: ctime: creation or change time?
- References: <1109798389.42262df5e7c1d@webmail.namezero.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 2 13:19, eric@melski.net wrote:
> In fact, NTFS has no notion of file change time as described in POSIX. Is there
> any chance of undoing this change? An alternative solution might be to simply
> use the NTFS file modify time for both the mtime and ctime of the file, since
> those two are almost always updated together anyway.
Well, we're trying to be POSIX like, so that's nothing we're going to
revert. I guess we're using ctime as change time even more in future.
Corinna
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