Does your "ls -lc" equal your "ls -l"?
Joe Weinstein
joe at dual.UUCP
Fri Aug 22 04:53:45 AEST 1986
Hi.
I'm wondering how many UNIX's give the commands
% ls -l and % ls -lc
the same result for a file that had been modified
some time after creation, in such a way that the
inode block list didn't change?
The c option is supposed to give the inode
modification date instead of the file modification
date. One has to define "inode modification" use-
fully because even cat'ing a file modifies the inode
access time field. I think the best definition for
inode modification is inode creation, so that we
have a good indicator of file creation date.
On our V.2.2, ls -l == ls -lc, though I
have jimmied my own kernel to to what I think it
should.
Does yours? What do you think?
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