Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:03:38 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file creation times ? Message-ID: <00May25.110340est.115250@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:35:11 -0700, Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> wrote: >On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:04:52PM +0400, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: >> Arun Sharma writes: >> > Is there any reason why FreeBSD doesn't store file creation times on >> > the disk (apart from historical reasons) ? To put it another way, why _should_ FreeBSD store a file creation time? >> in adddition to atime, ctime and mtime? > >struct timespec st_atimespec; /* time of last access */ >struct timespec st_mtimespec; /* time of last data modification */ >struct timespec st_ctimespec; /* time of last file status change */ > >None of them tell me when the file was created. That's all Unix has ever offered (both the original AT&T FS and FFS/UFS). If you really need a file creation time, you'll need a different filesystem. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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