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Re: October BBlisa Notes (finally)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Webber)
Mon Nov 23 20:30:22 1992
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:24:41 EST
From: nw@epoch.com (Neil Webber)
To: bblisa@inset.com
Adam S. Moskowitz writes:
>Does anyone else out there use ctime [ to select files ] ?
Yes. EpochBackup comes to mind :-) as does BSD dump. I'm sure other
examples exist. Chown, chgrp, chmod -- all these things are done for
a reason and need to be preserved!
Also, only using mtime leaves you vulnerable.
For example, Steve Harris writes:
>Not to mention that some user (or, more likely, some brain-damaged
>applicaton) could change the mtime and atime to make it look like the
>file is not new.
Be careful -- such "brain-damaged" applications are plentiful.
Consider tar with the "p" (preserve) option.
Neil Webber / Epoch Systems Inc., Westboro MA / (508) 836-4711, x309
nw@epoch.com
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