Posted Jul 30, 2010 0:45 UTC (Fri) by markh (subscriber, #33984)
In reply to: ctime by giraffedata
Parent article: File creation times
I have no problem with people using mtime this way, as long as there is some other way to determine that some change was made. ctime satisfies that nicely. I am just concerned that Linus of all people would suggest that ctime is not useful and would be so quick to suggest that it be repurposed.