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From: | James Youngman |
Subject: | Re: st_brthtime support for findutils-4.3.x |
Date: | Tue, 6 Mar 2007 17:55:23 +0000 |
On 3/6/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
Cygwin may be adding the feature of st_birthtime in the upcoming 1.7.0 (sparked by this thread), since NTFS is another filesystem that tracks creation time alongside change time. Findutils will be an interesting test case to see that cygwin gets it implemented nicely. Are there any standards documents that mention st_birthtime, or is it just an unstandardized extension at the moment?
I think it is unstandardised. It had previously been called st_createtime but Eric Allman changed it to st_birthtime to avoid potential confusion with st_ctime. I think we should ask the FreeBSD implementers if there is any standard or guideline that (other) implementers of the feature should be aware of. I have CC'ed Kirk McKusick. The relevant change in FreeBSD to src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c was comitted in 2002 by Kirk McKusick (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c#rev1.260). James.
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