[PLUG] Creation times on unix files

[Mark Dominus <mjd-list-plug2@plover.com>]

After our recent discussion of the "ctime" value in the inode, I spent
a while digging through some old Unix source code and other materials,
and I learned that extremely old Unix systems (prior to 1975,
basically) did in fact have a "creation time"!  

I wrote to Dennis Ritchie, one of the authors of Unix, to ask where it
had gone; he said he thinks they took it out because they did not find
it useful.

A detailed summary of my findings, uincluding a lot of grovelling
through the Unix version 5 source code, is available from:
        http://blog.plover.com/Unix/ctime.html



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