On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:14:59 +0000, Rocky Hotas wrote: .... > Consider a configuration file. Assume that it has been created 10 years ago, > when the company was running Linux. 5 years ago, the company switched to > NetBSD. > You are a new employee and you just discovered that this configuration file > has > odd behaviours.
That is what we have version control for. Also, the definition of birthtime being the time a file was created immediately raises the question whether it should be changed when the file is rewritten in place, but not recreated. If yes, it's just mtime; if no, it wouldn't help in your very scenario, depending on the editor used. - Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
