On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:48, Michael George wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:36:43PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 08:05 19 Feb 2003, Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:10:33AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > | > It should change.
> > | That's what I thought.
> > | > Maybe mutt's being rude.
> > | But isn't this a filesystem feature?  How can mutt (not) change the mod time
> > | on a file?
> > 
> > It could do it after the fact with the utime() call.
> 
> Really?  I thought that one required su permissions to do such a thing...
> Seems like a big security hole to allow any owner of a file to change the mod
> times...  Wow...
> 

yup you can also do this with touch 

$ echo testfile>timetest
$ ls -o  timetest 
-rw-rw-r--    1 bhughes         9 Feb 20 19:37 timetest
$ touch -t 02201800 timetest 
$ ls -o  timetest 
-rw-rw-r--    1 bhughes         9 Feb 20 18:00 timetest

Bret



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