Subject: Re: Mac Aliases changing
From: John R. Jackson (jrj@gandalf.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 26 1997 - 10:13:21 EDT
>.... But a sollution could be to
>use the ctime (cretion time) of the i-node ...
Not to start an argument, and a little off the subject, but there is
no such thing as "creation time" stored in a Unix i-node. The "ctime"
field holds the time the i-node was last **changed**, e.g. with "chmod".
There is no way to determine when an i-node was created by looking at it.
The "ctime" field has confused and annoyed legions of programmers,
administrators and users for years.
More to the point of this discussion, ctime would not make a good
"uniquifier" because it can change during the liftime of an object just
like almost everything else in the i-node.
>73, Mario
JJ
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