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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Inode number changes for a file in Redhat Linux Post 302514960 by Corona688 on Monday 18th of April 2011 03:02:39 PM
Old 04-18-2011
vi doesn't appear to have a "do not change the inode" setting, no. You can do what I suggested. Or you can check if it's a script that's using vi or something which is doing the switcheroo.
 

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DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)						 1					     DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)

DirectoryIterator::getCTime - Get inode change time of the current DirectoryIterator item

SYNOPSIS
public int DirectoryIterator::getCTime (void ) DESCRIPTION
Get the inode change time for the current DirectoryIterator item. PARAMETERS
This function has no parameters. RETURN VALUES
Returns the last change time of the file, as a Unix timestamp. EXAMPLES
Example #1 DirectoryIterator.getCTime(3) example This example displays the file name and last change time of the files in the directory containing the script. <?php $iterator = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__)); foreach ($iterator as $fileinfo) { if ($fileinfo->isFile()) { echo $fileinfo->getFilename() . " changed at " . $fileinfo->getCTime() . " "; } } ?> The above example will output something similar to: apple.jpg changed at 1240398312 banana.jpg changed at 1238605440 index.php changed at 1240398935 pear.jpg changed at 1237423740 SEE ALSO
DirectoryIterator::getATime, DirectoryIterator::getMTime, filectime(3). PHP Documentation Group DIRECTORYITERATOR.GETCTIME(3)
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