Date/time stamps on files to help with hardlinking

[Villalovos, John L]

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> Jesse Keating
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: Date/time stamps on files to help with hardlinking
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> On Thursday 04 March 2004 11:33, Villalovos, John L wrote:
> > Is there any possibility of getting the files which are identical to
> > have the same date/time stamps on the repository?
> 
> I could yet.  However, I wonder, if the files are named the same, but 
> are different contents, but have the same timestamp, will hardlink 
> think they need to be linked?

No.  Hardlink looks at all of the following before doing a hardlink:

*	file mode/permissions
*	owner user id
*	owner group id
*	file size
*	modified time
*	and finally file contents must be equal.

John