[ingo] Procmail vacation script -- ctime vs mtime

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>:

>
> On Jan 22, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
>> This piece of code seem to have been working fine for the last 7  
>> years for everyone else, so I'm a but reluctant to change it,  
>> especially since I don't use procmail.
>>
>> This is the patch that added it:  
>> http://git.horde.org/diff.php/ingo/lib/Script/procmail.php?rev=1.51&rt=horde&r1=1.44&r2=1.45
>
>
> In many cases it does work; absent inode modifications ctime and  
> mtime are always the same. But when they are different I don't know  
> why you'd prefer the ctime.
>
> I emailed the contributor noted in the original patch (or at least  
> tried -- as you noted it's quite old). Maybe they can explain the  
> intent.

Thanks, please keep us updated.

Jan.

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