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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-05-12 03:51:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-05-12 03:51:40 (GMT) |
| commit | 1cd6e4dc38c7f7de3b39d93cb503ee2058662bcd (patch) | |
| tree | ded65f426487cdb7595fc6d4c7e5eeaf76f2f591 /Doc/lib/libstat.tex | |
| parent | 043fff088162c86f410fa2847e04d68a5213129f (diff) | |
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fix various descriptions of "ctime"
(closes SF patch #870287)
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstat.tex b/Doc/lib/libstat.tex index 74ccc37..d5353f1 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstat.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstat.tex @@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ Time of last modification. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{ST_CTIME} -Time of last status change (see manual pages for details). +The ``ctime'' as reported by the operating system. On some systems +(like \UNIX) is the time of the last metadata change, and, on others +(like Windows), is the creation time (see platform documentation for +details). \end{datadesc} The interpretation of ``file size'' changes according to the file |