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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: stat-time tests fix for Windows |
Date: | Sun, 14 May 2017 12:12:06 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 |
Bruno Haible wrote:
Strangely enough, when you create a file, delete it, create it again (with the same name), then the st_ctime field will contain the time of the first creation.
This misfeature is by design. It's called "file system tunneling". See, for example: http://dfstream.blogspot.com/2012/02/file-system-tunneling-in-windows.html
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