On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 07:14:09PM +0100, Alan Blackwell wrote: > I sometimes need find out when a file or directory on a machine was > deleted Alan, I would be surprised if the operating system's last act before removing a file was to make a note in a no-longer-needed directory entry/inode somewhere when the inode/directory entry was destroyed. Maybe the "last modifification time" on the directory has that information, but in a conglomerate sort of way. (Read: other file changes in the directory may make that timestamp not the latest file deleted.) -- "A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb." -- US Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas)
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