[net.unix-wizards] ctime is not creation time

bradn (05/11/82)

The header file /usr/include/sys/ino.h describes the inode ctime field
as the "time created", yet everything other reference I find in the
manual pages describes this field as the time of the last change to the
i-node.  Can anybody out there explain why the header file contains
this seemingly incorrect comment?

	Brad Needham
	Tektronix, Inc.
	(...!teklabs!tekmdp!bradn)

thomas (05/12/82)

My guess is that somebody considered a change to the inode to be a
'file creation'.
=Spencer