On Wednesday 22 October 2003 6:34 am, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David T Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> writes:
>
> David> Looks OK to me (on Linux, 3.6g-2 VM). My /etc/hosts shows a
> creationTime earlier David> than modificationTime as expected.
>
> First, there's no such thing as creation time on Unix.  So I have
> no idea what the Unix VM is reporting.

Of course, you're right. I was using the terms as in Squeak.

> Second, if it's reporting ctime, the ctime is updated when the mtime
> is updated, so absent a call to utime(2) (which sets the ctime to
> "now" and the atime and mtime to arbitrary values), the ctime is
> always the same or newer than the mtime.  The rules are:
>
>         atime - modified when file is opened for read, or via utime()
>         mtime - modified when file is opened for write, or via utime()
>         ctime - modified when file is opened for write, or when any
>                 metadata is changed (renamed, linked, utime'd, chowned,

Right. And what I was seeing in Squeak is that it was reporting the ctime 
rather than the mtime.

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