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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Add set_* functions to stat-time? |
Date: | Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:55:27 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird |
On 2024-03-17 14:03, Bruno Haible wrote:
* On Linux, it's not even possible to set the birthtime of a file, if that is meant to mean the ctime (change time).
birthtime is when the file was first created. You can't change it. So it differs from ctime.
There's nothing 'tar -x' can do with birthtime. I suppose it'd be nicer if for tar to ignore birthtime than to warn about it.
birthtime might be useful with other tar options, e.g., 'tar --d'.I agree with Bruno that 'tar -c' shouldn't generate birthtime by default, but I suppose an option could be added.
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