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Re: st_birthtime
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:18:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: st_birthtime
- References: <45ED65D9.80901@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 6 06:00, Eric Blake wrote:
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> There is currently a thread on bug-gnulib about adding GNU tool support
> for platforms that support st_birthtime in addition to st_atime, st_mtime,
> and st_ctime. Since Windows has a notion of birthtime (in fact, since
> Windows calls their birthtime attribute a 'creation time', leading to
> several people's confusion over what ctime really means), is it worth
> cygwin 1.7 adding st_birthtime support?
I don't know if it's actually worth the effort, but it would be easily
supportable in struct stat, given that we have spare room in struct stat
of exactly the size of a timestruc_t, afaics. But, still, does it
really make sense? How long will it take until st_birthtime will go
into the standards, if at all?
Corinna
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