Why does "file" change the creation time on some Unix systems?

[Chris Torek]

>In article <?> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>... of UNIX; no version I know of maintains the *creation* time of a
>>file. 

In article <2268 at faline.bellcore.com> hill at faline.bellcore.com
(Chris Hill) writes:
>If so, to what "creation" time does the -c option of ls refer?

One existing only in the mind of whoever wrote the manual entry.

The manual entry has been fixed in time for the next BSD release (whenever
that may be).
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