[TUHS] When/how did ctime change from inode "creation" to "change" time?

[Alec Muffett]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, 05:57 Theodore Ts'o, <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:

>
>         time_t  di_ctime;       /* time created */

...

> ... although the v7 kernel sources does seem to update ctime when the
> inode metadata changes, regardless of what the coment in
> /usr/src/sys/h/ino.h might say.
>

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.

Perhaps the comment is just a brain fart?

-a
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