Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to makeextended file stats available [ver #6]
From: Jim Rees
Date: Thu Jul 22 2010 - 13:22:16 EST
Linus Torvalds wrote:
I personally think that Unix ctime is insane. There is no real reason
why "write()" should change mtime, but "chmod" changes ctime. It was
just a random decision way back when...
I believe it was done that way so "dump" could backup just the inode and not
the data if only the inode had changed. Full history here:
http://blog.plover.com/Unix/ctime.html
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