In article <478260ae$0$84195$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Icarus Sparry <usenet@icarus.freeuk.com> wrote:

> So the behaviour is correct. You have to have an EUID equal to the owner
> of the file to set an arbitary time. You can set it to the current time
> just by having write permission.

I presume the intent is that the owner might want to know when people
have written to his file. They shouldn't be able to write to the file
and then hide it by reverting the modification time.

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