<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, 05:57 Theodore Ts'o, <<a href="mailto:tytso@mit.edu">tytso@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
time_t di_ctime; /* time created */</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">...</div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
... although the v7 kernel sources does seem to update ctime when the<br>
inode metadata changes, regardless of what the coment in<br>
/usr/src/sys/h/ino.h might say.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've worked at one company where policy was that comments were considered a risk for precisely this reason, and where if code were not written clearly enough to be understood without comments, it was generally considered a bug.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Perhaps the comment is just a brain fart? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-a</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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