POSIX says in <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rename.html>: Upon successful completion, rename() shall mark for update the st_ctime and st_mtime fields of the parent directory of each file. ext[23]_rename fail to update st_[cm]time of the target directory if the target file already existed. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users