> I have just moved an backup version of a file in an compilation tree
> over the orignal:
> mv backup.c~ backup.c
> That's nothing special of course. However the interresting thing
> was that make didn't notice this at all. In esp. it didnt notice this
> as a change to backup.c and didn't therefore any recompilation work.
> I would suspect that in this case the modification time of the
> inode corresponding to backup.c~ didn't get updated.
Why ? backup.c~ (or now backup.c) is not changed -- why modification time
should be changed ??? At least I'm always was sure that this is exactly correct
behaviour (I'm depend on it a lot :-) but unfortunatelly I'm not know what
POSIX say on subject...
> Is this correct behaviour?
I hope.
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