Am 21.03.2011 01:40, schrieb Dan Stromberg: > 1) If you want to set the ctime to the current time, you can os.rename() the > file to some temporary name, and then quickly os.rename() it back. > > 2) You can sort of set a file to have an arbitrary ctime, by setting the > system's clock to what you need, and then doing the rename thing above - > then restore the clock back to what it should be. > > 3) You can also use some sort of tool that knows the details of how inodes > are stored on disk. You'll likely need to do this with the filesystem > unmounted at the time, though if the inode isn't currently cached in RAM, > you might be able to get away without the umount and mount. > > #2 and #3 require root access typically.
You don't have to renmae the file to set the ctime to current time stamp. os.chmod(), os.chown(), os.link() and possible other function set the ctime of a file. However ctime is *not* the creation time stamp on POSIX OSes. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
