From 1346b84c195cd6587f93dfe7faac199acc8f6936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: naruse <naruse@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:38:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] NTFS's ctime is creation time! [ruby-core:33269]

Note that UFS2, HFS+, ZFS, and ext4 also have birth time.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@29844 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
---
 file.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index dc9f830fc7..d5a50b2de5 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -713,6 +713,8 @@ rb_stat_mtime(VALUE self)
  *  directory information about the file was changed, not the file
  *  itself).
  *
+ *  Note that on Windows (NTFS), returns creation time (birth time).
+ *
  *     File.stat("testfile").ctime   #=> Wed Apr 09 08:53:14 CDT 2003
  *
  */
@@ -1869,6 +1871,8 @@ rb_file_mtime(VALUE obj)
  *  directory information about the file was changed, not the file
  *  itself).
  *
+ *  Note that onn Windows (NTFS), returns creation time (birth time).
+ *
  *     File.ctime("testfile")   #=> Wed Apr 09 08:53:13 CDT 2003
  *
  */
@@ -1892,6 +1896,8 @@ rb_file_s_ctime(VALUE klass, VALUE fname)
  *  Returns the change time for <i>file</i> (that is, the time directory
  *  information about the file was changed, not the file itself).
  *
+ *  Note that onn Windows (NTFS), returns creation time (birth time).
+ *
  *     File.new("testfile").ctime   #=> Wed Apr 09 08:53:14 CDT 2003
  *
  */