On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:54 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:56:11PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
>> I am less interested in the record of when I acquired it. But I could
>> learn that by "ls -ltc" which show the modification time of the inode,
>> not of the data.
>
> The ctime is updated when the data changes as well. The ctime is the
> last time anything about the file was changed. The mtime is the time
> the data was written, or whatever someone calling 'utime()' writes to
> it.
In context, we are talking about downloading files from some
repository. Not about modifying them locally.
So your observations about ctime are correct, but irrelevant. That's
what I mean by arguing in circles.
carl
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