Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:19:10 GMT From: "Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/100494: Missing description of "birth time of the inode" in man stat Message-ID: <200607181919.k6IJJA7W046319@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200607181920.k6IJKL9O050785@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 100494 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Missing description of "birth time of the inode" in man stat >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 18 19:20:16 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Dr. Markus Waldeck >Release: 6.1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD fb 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: "birthtime" always corresponds with the comment /* time of file creation */ in /usr/include/sys/stat.h. man stat mentions ONE time "birth time of the inode": The time file was last accessed or modified, of when the inode was last changed, or the birth time of the inode. There is no further explanation of the meaning and the correlation to the "time of file creation". >How-To-Repeat: man stat >Fix: Add the explanation >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:home | help
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