On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:33:25PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
| On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
|
| > The field st_ctime is changed by writing or by setting
| > inode information (i.e., owner, group, link count, mode,
| > etc.).
| >
| > so simply doing a chmod will set ctime.
|
| I want tar to NOT change the ctime :)
Then don't change the inode. That is, don't run tar or chmod or touch
or anything else that will change the inode.
Going back to the original post :
I can get tar to not change the atime on a backup with the
--atime-preserve flag.
However, that makes it change the ctime, to do that.
Indeed, setting the atime field requires changing the inode. Hence
ctime is changed.
The manpage shaleh quoted is stat(2). Another section of it says :
time_t st_ctime; /* time of last change */
You can't control it, which is a Good Thing.
-D
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