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Re: The fallacy of ctime

Dalson Cabinet Key — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:05:26 -0000

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more posts like this? Plese tell me, thanks

Re: The fallacy of ctime

Anderson Hickey File — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:10:12 -0000

Great! Thank for information, I'm looking for it for a long time,

Re: The fallacy of ctime

Ceri Davies — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:02:03 -0000

I just committed support for btime to find, FYI.

Re: The fallacy of ctime

Tony Lawrence — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:25:23 -0000

"defaults" to mtime"

Boy, I can mistype really fast today :-)

Re: The fallacy of ctime

Tony Lawrence — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:22:47 -0000

Ooops - nothing to do with the "b" - it's just "ls -l" that defaults to the btime..

Re: The fallacy of ctime

Tony Lawrence — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:12:19 -0000

I noted my error and corrected my "shame" page slightly, though I did a quick search and found that in other articles I had been less careless.

It is an easy mistake to fall into even when you know better.

Here's something interesting from a BSD system:

bash-2.05a$ for i in l lct lut lbt; do echo "($i)";eval ls -$i codec; done
(l)
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Jan 2 2005 codec
(lct)
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Jan 2 2005 codec
(lut)
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Apr 22 2005 codec
(lbt)
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Jan 2 2005 codec
bash-2.05a$ chmod 664 codec
bash-2.05a$ for i in l lct lut lbt; do echo "($i)";eval ls -$i codec; done
(l)
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Jan 2 2005 codec
(lct)
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Jan 21 13:10 codec
(lut)
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Apr 22 2005 codec
(lbt)
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pcunix pcunix 0 Jan 2 2005 codec
bash-2.05a$

Although the man page for "ls" on that box will tell you that "-b" has nothing to do with btime, apparently it does.

Re: The fallacy of ctime

Brian S — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:40:04 -0000

Good point indeed... in the back of my mind, I was thinking "creation time" too, but I guess that comes from a combination of rarely (if at all) using that timestamp and the fact that I'm mainly a Win32 developer by day (where there IS a creation timestamp).

Re: The fallacy of ctime

Michael — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:24:47 -0000

Good point on ctime there Thomas, i'm just sitting here and studying to an operating systems exam and just went threw the chapters on this. I always thought ctime was creation time to before.
It's really bad that public sites such as kde,tcl,reiserfs aren't giving the correct information on this.

Now it's time for breakfast before some more studying.
Good pointers in this post, keep up the good work!

Cheers!