-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to James Youngman on 3/25/2007 4:13 AM: > On 3/25/07, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > st_birthtime (for seconds), or st_birthtim (for struct timespec) >> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q1/msg00122.html > > I forgot to ask, what happens (from the user program's point of view) > if the file being examined has no creation time information? I think > MSDOS doesn't record it, for example. Many NFS filesystems don't > offer it either.
I haven't tested, partly because it is such a new feature of cygwin, and there are so few existing programs that even try to expose st_birthtime to the user. MSDOS (meaning FAT) actually DOES record birthtime (it only records birthtime, mtime, and atime, and lacks POSIX ctime; but outside of cygwin, Microsoft mistakenly treats birthtime as their ctime in stat). And part of the joy of it being a CVS development snapshot is that I can give some feedback back to the cygwin developers - what would you rather have stat do when btime is not available for a given file? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGBoUU84KuGfSFAYARAizyAJ9WvTTRdPBp/sLcB8UYy9wxmRoS5ACdEsak 4dMluZVRkOCcMlnlb4aQdhY= =2wBb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/