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Eric Blake wrote:

> How is the date horrible?  It is 0 seconds since the epoch, for lack of a
> better date.


Mark J. Reed wrote:

> /cygdrive is not a real directory. That "horrible" metadata you're
> complaining about isn't actually stored anywhere, it's generated by
> the system when you ask for it.

If I have well understood '/proc' is a virtual directory like 
'/cygdrive', but for it

$ ls -lrt /
dr-xr-xr-x   1 Administrator  Administrators  0 Dec  1  2006 proc
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

So, why not similar things for cygdrive? This was only my curiosity.

Regarding the 'horrible', that date (01.01.1970) remembered me some 
negative experiences on old DOS.


Cheers,
    Angelo.


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