Date: Sun, 1 Jan 95 09:13:44 -0500 From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does ls report wrong creation date on symlinks? Message-ID: <9501011413.AA02072@helix.nih.gov>
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: >>I just discovered that "ls -l" reports the creation date incorrectly : >>on symlinks. It reports as the creation date of each symlink, the [...] : the attributes of the parent directory are used instead. See : `man 7 symlink'. : : Bruce Apologies to DG! I waxed acerbic at what appeared to be answers to questions I hadn't asked. Indeed, `man 7 symlink' tells the whole story. Another case of RTFM :-( Still, when information is missing, isn't it generally a Bad Thing to invent a fictitious quantity to report? Chuck Bacon -- crtb@helix.nih.gov
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