On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, ropers wrote: > Hi, > > This is a sorta n00bish question, but I've just discovered that unlike > what I've always assumed to be the case, changing a file's permissions > doesn't touch its last modified time/date stamp. > > Is there any way to find out when a file's permissions were last modified?
Inode changes change the ctimestamp. You can look at it using ls -lc
or stat(1).
stat(2) lists when ctime is updated.
-Otto
