Re: Defect in XCU pax

[Mark Brown <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick writes:
> I think the simplest answer is to change the phrase "creation time" in
> the pax description (everywhere in the ctime description) to "status
> change time". The  description for ctime would then read:
> 
> ctime    The file status change time for the following file(s), 
equivalent
> to the value of the st_ctime member of the stat structure for a file, as
> described by the stat( ) function. The status change time shall be
> restored if the process has the appropriate privilege required to do so.
> The format of the <value> shall be as described in pax Extended Header
> File Times (on page 714).

For my own edification -- is there a way to set this, provided for in the
standard?


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Mark S. Brown 
STSM, UNIX/Linux OS Standards
IBM Systems Group
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