Re: What is the difference between Change time and Modify time?

2011-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: The question in the header refers, of course, to the options found under Sort Order. Frankly, I can not tell the difference between the meanings of these two options -- unless perhaps I would take a deep

Re: What is the difference between Change time and Modify time?

2011-07-31 Thread Andrew Borodin
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:10:41 -0500 (CDT) Theodore Kilgore wrote: To answer your question, please read the stat(2) man page and find description of change time (ctime) and modify time (mtime) Probably, the built-in help should be more verbose about sort orders. -- Andrew

Re: What is the difference between Change time and Modify time?

2011-07-31 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Andrew Borodin wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:10:41 -0500 (CDT) Theodore Kilgore wrote: To answer your question, please read the stat(2) man page and find description of change time (ctime) and modify time (mtime) Probably, the built-in help should be more verbose

What is the difference between Change time and Modify time?

2011-07-30 Thread Theodore Kilgore
architecture. However, I still can not tell what the difference between Modify time and Change time was supposed to be in the first place, nor, for that matter, why both of these are separately listed as options when their names seem to mean the same thing with synonymous words. It seems to me