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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>
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Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bug with files.
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Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> writes:
>> 
>>> I would assume that the creation date should be left untouched?
>> 
>> There's no such thing as a creation time in Unix.  There's only the
>> inode change time.
>
> Fxattr returns two different timestamps for the creation time and

There is no such thing as a creation time.

> modification time on my Milan, as long as the file(s) hasn't been
> changed recently.

The inode change time changes whenever the inode changes.

Andreas.

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