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Why updating atime doesn't update ctime?
Post 302579211 by botao on Monday 5th of December 2011 06:35:31 AM
12-05-2011
you are semantically right, but ...
1) what you just said about 'atime/read' would also apply to 'mtime/write' ;
2) if you consider "inode"-change meaning "owner/group/mode"-change, then the results shall match the text better, don't you think ?
and please (for the sake of goodness) consider that the 'original' description you mentioned was written about 3 decades ago, and was not 'revised' ever since ;
hth
good luck, and success.
alexandre botao
2) if you consider "inode"-change meaning "owner/group/mode"-change, then the results shall match the text better, don't you think ?
and please (for the sake of goodness) consider that the 'original' description you mentioned was written about 3 decades ago, and was not 'revised' ever since ;
hth
good luck, and success.
alexandre botao
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