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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:31:24 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> The kernel does caching really well, and the kernel is fast as hell, so 
> _of_course_ when you benchmark, using kernel data structures looks good, 
> especially if you benchmark against code that isn't well written for the 
> particular usage case.

Ok.  While I have your attention on st_ctime, let me ask you a stupid
question.  Why does "rename(old, new)" change st_ctime when you move a
regular file?