On 20-Apr-2008, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote: > no, that observation wasn't even related to screen - I made it when > experimenting manually with two bash instances and a fifo.
Further investigation shows this is defined behaviour for Unix (and
correctly implemented in Linux).
Upon successful completion, [...] write() shall mark for update
the st_ctime and st_mtime fields of the file, [...]
<URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/write.html>
The 'ctime' field is not, as I had previously thought, the "creation
time", but rather the "time of last status change" (as opposed to
'mtime', the "time of last data modification")
<URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html>.
So it seem that there is currently no useful file-status time field to
order by for the session FIFOs. Should one be created as an attribute
of screen's session data?
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