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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex index b3973e3..aa790e7 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex @@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ not exist or is inaccessible. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getctime}{path} -Return the time of most recent content modification or metadata change -for \var{path}. The return +Return the system's ctime which, on some systems (like \UNIX) is the +time of the last change, and, on others (like Windows), is the +creation time for \var{path}. The return value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the \refmodule{time} module). Raise \exception{os.error} if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. |