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Provenance Time Proposed As A New Timestamp For Linux


While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time 'ptime' is now being proposed for the Linux kernel.

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