On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Dan Sully wrote:

> Look at mtime, not ctime.

If mtime changes, so must ctime since it is the timestamp of any update to
the inode, which is where mtime is kept.

I am sure the only reason the directory last-modify time was updated in
his case was because the tool did the equivalent of:
write "tempfile"
delete "realfile"
rename "tempfile","realfile"
while updating realfile.

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