Re: ctime updated unexpectedly

2005-04-12 Thread thomas . revell
> OK, thanks for the advice. Do you know if there is any way I can get the > information I was expecting. If not, I'll have to make some major changes > to some complicated shell scripts :( Sorry, I don't know of any way with POSIX semantics to track when just file metadata has changed. There

Re: ctime updated unexpectedly

2005-04-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/11/2005 10:14 AM: > OK, thanks for the advice. Do you know if there is any way I can get the > information I was expecting. If not, I'll have to make some major changes > to some complicated shell scripts :( Sorry

Re: ctime updated unexpectedly

2005-04-11 Thread thomas . revell
>Hi everyone, >> >> I wonder if someone could clear up an issue I'm having with ls -c (sorting >> files by ctime). As I understand it, the ctime is only updated when file >> status information (such as permissions) changes, or a file is completely >> recreated. It looks to me though, like th

Re: ctime updated unexpectedly

2005-04-11 Thread Eric Blake
> Hi everyone, > > I wonder if someone could clear up an issue I'm having with ls -c (sorting > files by ctime). As I understand it, the ctime is only updated when file > status information (such as permissions) changes, or a file is completely > recreated. It looks to me though, like the ctime

ctime updated unexpectedly

2005-04-11 Thread thomas . revell
Hi everyone, I wonder if someone could clear up an issue I'm having with ls -c (sorting files by ctime). As I understand it, the ctime is only updated when file status information (such as permissions) changes, or a file is completely recreated. It looks to me though, like the ctime is being up