It's a myth that you can get the absolute creation time of
a file under Unix. No such information is stored. Besides,
when is a file created? Suppose a file named orig
is created at time T0, and at time
T1 happens one of the following:
mv orig new
mv orig /some/other/file/system/new
cp orig new
ln orig new
echo "Foo" >> orig
echo "Foo" > orig
vi orig
cp /etc/password orig
What would be the "absolute creation time" of new,
and what happens to the "absolute creation time" of
orig in all those cases?
Abigail |