site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com You're not using Windows. --Amanda _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, rohan a wrote: Hello, Actually I used the vi editor to modify the file. When I use touch command or cat >> example the creation time does not change. But why should this happen? This behaviour is not seen with Windows. If I recall correctly, vi saves a file by writing out a new copy, deleting the old one, and then renaming the new copy to the old name. This way the file is always intact, even if something goes wrong during the "save" operation. This is fairly common behavior for text editors on UNIX platforms. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com