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

[Rich Salz]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:

> I have fond memories of looking at the Larn (or was it Hack/Nethack?)
> sources and seeing that it checked ctime to prevent people from
> cheating by saving and restoring the game save file, since ctime
> couldn't be set without either changing the system clock or directly
> accessing the file system (or kernel memory) and messing with the
> on-disk inode directly.


Rogue did it first. :) They also store the inode number.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20250312/3c456921/attachment.htm>