X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:00:53 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Support for st_birthtime Message-ID: <20070326090053.GB21641@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4605AC0A.1000905@byu.net> <4605E9D1.5010105@byu.net> <46068514.7020008@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 25 21:28, James Youngman wrote: > On 3/25/07, Eric Blake wrote: > >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? > > Set tv_sec to 0, and tv_nsec to UTIME_OMIT (if available) or to any > negative number. This is a non-issue, afaics. Windows filetime functions always return a creation time and I don't know filesystems which wouldn't return a creation time. Samba on linux for instance returns the last modification time as creation time. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/