[PLUG] ctime and lunatics

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Wed Oct 23 17:02:17 UTC 2002


* Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com> [2002-10-23 09:31]:
> Can someone with a richer Unix background than I give
> me a historical perspective on why a file's ctime changes
> when the file is modified?
> I expect mtime and atime to change, but ctime? Seems
> like lunacy to me, which means there's a good reason
> I'm not privy to.

ctime is "time of last modification of file status information"

If the file information (size, inode, mtime, atime, anything at all?)
changes, then the ctime changes.

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