atime, ctime, mtime, what time?
Waldher, Travis R
Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com
Fri Mar 28 18:04:00 UTC 2008
What changes need to occur to affect each time on a file or directory?
So far I have:
Atime:
read a file
modify the permissions
modify the ownership
create new file
Ctime:
modify the permissions
modify the ownership
modify the first level of contents of a directory
create new file
Mtime:
modify the contents of a file
create new file
This is based of the googling and limited testing I have done.
Which begs a question, wiki, for what it's worth, states that if a
permission or ownership change is made that both the atime and ctime
will be modified. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stat_(Unix)
How can a ctime be newer than an atime?
Thanks,
Travis
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