(Running on Windows XP, Perl 5.8.8).

(stat 'file')[10] is supposed to return the inode modification time on Unix. I wonder what time is returned on Windows, because I see the following behaviour: I create a file from the CMD prompt, and later on, from Perl, I execute the following code: 

unlink('file');
open(my $h,'>file');
print $h 'something';
close $h;

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After doing this, I found more often than not, that the ctime of the file is still the original (old) one from the first creation. I had expected that, since the unlink operation removes the file from the directory, the later creation should also set the "ctime" to a new value.

Maybe some kind soul could explain, why this doesn't work as expected...
-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re-Creating a file does not change inode modification time (Windows) by rovf

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