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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:30:59 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ctime: creation or change time?
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On Mar  2 13:19, eric AT melski DOT 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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