On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, 05:57 Theodore Ts'o, <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

        time_t  di_ctime;       /* time created */
...
... although the v7 kernel sources does seem to update ctime when the
inode metadata changes, regardless of what the coment in
/usr/src/sys/h/ino.h might say.

I've worked at one company where policy was that comments were considered a risk for precisely this reason, and where if code were not written clearly enough to be understood without comments, it was generally considered a bug.

Perhaps the comment is just a brain fart? 

-a