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fix various descriptions of "ctime" (closes SF patch #870287)
author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Wed, 12 May 2004 03:51:40 +0000
parents 69bc7ca5cc1a
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstat.tex	Wed May 12 03:20:37 2004 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstat.tex	Wed May 12 03:51:40 2004 +0000
@@ -110,7 +110,10 @@
 \end{datadesc}
 
 \begin{datadesc}{ST_CTIME}
-Time of last status change (see manual pages for details).
+The ``ctime'' as reported by the operating system.  On some systems
+(like \UNIX) is the time of the last metadata change, and, on others
+(like Windows), is the creation time (see platform documentation for
+details).
 \end{datadesc}
 
 The interpretation of ``file size'' changes according to the file