>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> I'm sure there is some valid reason for not tracking file creation Bill> dates but I fail to figure it out on my own. The founding fathers of Unix deliberately left out "creation time" because the concept is ambiguous at best. There's some discussion on it in the classic materials about the early years of Unix. And I agree with the logic, and the conclusion. Unix *does* track the most recent time anything happens to a file or its metadata via ctime. That's probably close to "creation" as you would probably mean it or need it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
