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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:16:53 +0000
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] file creation time
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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.