On 12/23/11 22:57, Bruno Haible wrote: > * It is possible that the MacOS X "Spotlight" indexer daemon and the > MacOS X "Time Machine" incremental backup were running at the same time.
Some programs like that play a trick: they save st_atime, then read a file, then restore st_atime back to the old value. This updates st_ctime, though, and it might explain your problem. I don't know whether those two programs do that, though.
