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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:21:06 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] file creation time
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On Thu Jan 22 13:17:59 EST 2009, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
> 2009/1/22  <lucio@proxima.alt.za>:
> > I do wonder why this field was sacrificed in the file system(s) and
> > 9P*?
>
> useful or not, traditional unix ctime never gave the creation time
> anyway - it gave inode modification time, which isn't the
> same thing at all: it's updated when you do a chmod.

will the real creation time please stand up.

- erik