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Re: Is there a way to change the creation time for a file in an AFS

2006-02-03, 5:56 pm

Chuck Dillon wrote:

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> Your assuming the touch command available supports modifying a creation
> time, which is non-standard and generally not supported on UNIX
> filesystems. Ryan's solution makes no such assumption.
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False, not I'm assuming that ...