Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:20:54 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: file creation times ? Message-ID: <200005251720.SAA03455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> of "Thu, 25 May 2000 02:32:35 PDT." <200005250932.CAA20546@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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> On May 24, 6:58pm, Arun Sharma wrote:
> } Subject: Re: file creation times ?
> } On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:03:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> } > To put it another way, why _should_ FreeBSD store a file creation time?
> }
> } 0. I'm tired of seeing people putting "Created: mm/dd/yy" in their documents.
>
> When saving a document to "file", many editors will do the equivalent of
> save document to "file.new"
> ln "file" "file.bak"
> mv "file.new" "file"
[.....]
Such editors are broken. What if the file is a symlink ? IMHO
open() write() write() write() ftruncate() close() is the only way.
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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