Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 17:53:38 +0000 From: Knowledge Seeker <knoseeker@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: utimes(2): changing the birth time Message-ID: <AANLkTimzR-yTu6S5C49bojmGvGrQ1wQRvcjhKcrlJTg-@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Is there a way to set birth time to a value greater(newer) than the actual birth time (not in the future, but not the current time)? The man page utimes(2) says that is only possible to change to an older value. I saw a way to do this by opening a new file, coping the data, setting the other attributes, then calling utimes 2 times to set the birth and the modification time. Is there a way to change it without creating a new file? Thanks in advance. -- Knoseeker
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