Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 13:27:50 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Chuck Bacon <crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does ls report wrong creation date on symlinks? Message-ID: <199412302127.NAA07659@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Dec 94 16:18:52 EST." <199412302118.QAA02761@upcoming.dcrt.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 >modification time of its directory. Thus, if I "touch foo" in some >directory, a subsequent "ls -l" will report the identical creation >time for both foo and all the symlinks in the directory. Therefore, >"ls -lt" will position all the symlinks at the top. As has been said numerous times in the past already, this is not a bug. It's the intended behavior. The idea is that symlinks aren't necessarily files and therefore should not have their own file permissions/dates/etc...but instead should take on those attributes from the file that the symlink points to if it exists. -DG
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