docs/100494

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Sat Oct 7 21:50:27 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/100494; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/100494
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:47:21 +0100

 Your new statements are incorrect; birthtime refers to when the inode
 was allocated, not when the file was created.  The implications of
 using any term other than the self-descriptive "birth time" really are
 unclear (for instance, when is a file restored from backup created?) and
 so we're really better off just using the term "birth time".
 
 Ceri



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