From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject: Re: Q: libc fstat: Why is st_ctime < st_atime == st_mtime after fopen?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:37:27 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, I wrote:
>
>> Careful testing 
>> demonstrates that ctime might be behind mtime and the system clock by as 
>> much as 3 seconds(!).
>
>Sorry, this is inaccurate and might be confusing.  The correct wording is 
>this: mtime might be ahead of ctime and the system clock by as much as 3 
>seconds.

Understood.  For perl purposes, the fact that they are *not* equal is
sufficient.  Thanks for the clarification, though.

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