``ctime''

[Roland Illig]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 
> 
>>>We stumbled over this on IRC as a guy asked how to set the ``creation
>>>time'' for a file, and after a while we found out he's using MC.
>>>
>>>MC talks of ctime as it was creation time. Is there a specific reason
>>>for that? I searched manpage and sourcecode. No hints.
> 
> 
> Where did you get that source code ? There is no reference to "creation
> time" in the current source code. You are right though that in the manpage
> says "creation time".

Indeed there is one:

2005-09-05  Roland Illig  <roland.illig at gmx.de>

         * info.c: [...] st_ctime is not the creation time,
         but the status change time.

And, Pavel, I think mc-devel was the appropriate mailing list, since 
this could (and maybe should) be seen as a bug report.

Anyway, the code has been fixed since a long time, and the man page 
since a few minutes.

Roland