Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:30:59 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ctime: creation or change time? Message-ID: <20050303113059.GC2839@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1109798389.42262df5e7c1d@webmail.namezero.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109798389.42262df5e7c1d@webmail.namezero.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/