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Aug 16, 2015 at 13:08 comment added CMCDragonkai I found that using flock changes the mtime and ctime!
Feb 10, 2012 at 1:36 comment added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' An important use of the ctime is for incremental backups: anything you might want to back up (data or metadata) affects the ctime, so if the ctime is older than the last backup, you don't need to back up again.
Feb 9, 2012 at 10:30 vote accept daisy
Feb 9, 2012 at 10:19 history edited Stéphane Gimenez CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 9, 2012 at 10:13 history answered Stéphane Gimenez CC BY-SA 3.0