public-domain implementation of V8 "newer"
Moderator, John Quarterman
std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Fri Nov 7 11:37:05 AEST 1986
From: gwyn at brl.arpa (VLD/VMB) (Douglas A. Gwyn)
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 86 18:48:26 EST
The 8th Ed. UNIX manual says that a zero return code is returned if
the first file's mod time is AT LEAST AS RECENT as the second's (as
well as under other circumstances). I take this to mean that in case
of an exact tie, the first file is considered "newer" than the second.
I don't know why it's specified this way.
Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 45
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