On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:14:47PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Linux already has a creation time field, it's called otime (there is no "b" > > in "creation"), and you will find scattered fragments of that all over the > > kernel (foremost, fs/jfs/, now btrfs, and I also notice sysvipc having > > something with that name). > > It is? It's called crtime in Ext4. st_btime, however, would be compatible > with BSD's stat, and Samba would just use it by way of autoconf magic if it > appeared. Samba has the following check: # recent FreeBSD, NetBSD have creation timestamps called birthtime: AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtimespec.tv_nsec]) AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtime], AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtimensec])) and the supporting code around that. "birth" might also be where the "b" comes from :-) Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
