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Re: st_brthtime support for findutils-4.3.x
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James Youngman |
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Re: st_brthtime support for findutils-4.3.x |
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Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:03:37 +0000 |
On 3/6/07, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
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.
It occurs to me in particular to wonder how stat(2) reports to the
caller that the filesystem containing the file just examined doesn't
support st_birthtime. That is, how is "this data is not available for
this file" reported by FreeBSD?
James.