Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 17:20:17 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Chuck Bacon <crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why does ls report wrong creation date on symlinks? Message-ID: <9412302220.AA05940@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199412302118.QAA02761@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov> References: <199412302118.QAA02761@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov>
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<<On Fri, 30 Dec 1994 16:18:52 -0500, Chuck Bacon <crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov> said: > I had previously noted that all directories in a MSDOSFS tree carry > as their creation date, the current moment. Somebody suggested that > this was a capricious choice, in view of the impossibility of > duplicating the creation date which DOS would report. I wonder > if there is a link between these two bugs. None whatsoever. The POSIX definition of symbolic links is written to allow them to be directory entries, and the 4.4 code simulates this. All the traditional ``inode'' values of symbolic links are ignored, and system calls always return the values from the parent directory. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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