File Creation Dates on Mac OS X: Clash of the Cultures
Yesterday, an interesting discussion about file metadata has begun on darwin-dev. Apple’s Jordan Hubbard argued how file creation dates should not be preserved when copying files.
In this piece, I counter that treating file creation dates as first-class metadata citizens and preserving them upon copying is the more sensible thing to do, and eventually represents the behavior expected by most Mac users.
Categories: macosx, unix, hacking
Continue Reading 33 comments June 27th, 2006