Re: Why does ls report wrong creation date on symlinks?

[crtb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chuck Bacon)]

: >>I just discovered that "ls -l" reports the creation date incorrectly
: >>on symlinks.  It reports as the creation date of each symlink, the

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: the attributes of the parent directory are used instead.  See
: `man 7 symlink'.
: 
: Bruce

Apologies to DG!  I waxed acerbic at what appeared to be answers to
questions I hadn't asked.  Indeed, `man 7 symlink' tells the whole
story.  Another case of RTFM :-(

Still, when information is missing, isn't it generally a Bad Thing
to invent a fictitious quantity to report?

	Chuck Bacon -- crtb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx