hi all!

is there a place in our collection of documentation that annotates just
what actions trigger a change to the modification date for a file?

we're revisiting some sox auditing things here and on the unix side,
they're reporting (for example) if ownership or rwx for a file changed.
 i was suprised to find that on both hp-ux and mpe changing the owner
or access to a file does *not* change the modified date.  it appears to
me that *internal* changes to a file will update the modified date but
not external changes....hence my question.     - d

Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
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