Re: ls bug: -c and -u swapped?

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Dunne <address@hidden> writes:

> $ ls --version
> ls (coreutils) 5.0
>
> $ ls -ltr /tmp/gmail.watch;ls -lcr /tmp/gmail.watch;ls -lur /tmp/gmail.watch
> -rw-------    1 paul     staff      304089 2004-06-19 18:16
> /tmp/gmail.watch
> -rw-------    1 paul     staff      304089 2004-06-19 18:16
> /tmp/gmail.watch
> -rw-------    1 paul     staff      304089 2004-06-19 14:18
> /tmp/gmail.watch
> $
>
> Isn't this the reverse of what should be?  -c is supposed to show "last
> inode change date", which in the above example is 14:18, whereas -u is
> supposed to show "last access time".  But as you can see,

Why do you think that 14:18 is the inode change time?  It's not apparent
from the given information.  What does `stat /tmp/gmail.watch' give?

Andreas.

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