Hi Steve,

On 4/28/24 9:41 PM, Steve French via samba-technical wrote:
> I did another test of the Samba server ctime bug on Samba master
> (4.21.0pre1) and Samba server is still broken in how it reports ctime.
> An example scenario is simple, creating a hardlink is supposed to
> update ctime on a file (and this works fine to Windows server and
> ksmbd etc) but Samba server mistakenly reports ctime as mtime (unless
> you mount with the "posix" mount option).  This e.g. breaks xfstest
> generic/236 when run to Samba
> 
> More information is at:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10883

I wonder if this is a bug going back as far as 
c9dca82ed7757f4745edf6ee6048bd94d86c4dbc

@Jeremy: do you remember why you chose to return mtime in 
get_change_timespec() and not ctime?

-slow