On 9/30/20 2:22 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Christoph Kalchreuter:
>
>> There are three Letters "e" missing in Section "DESCRIPTION",
>> Subsection "The stat structure":
>>
>> struct timespec st_atim; /* Time of last access */
>> struct timespec st_mtim; /* Time of last modification */
>> sruct timespec st_ctim; /* Time of last status change */
>>
>> should possibly be:
>>
>> struct timespec st_atime; /* Time of last access */
>> struct timespec st_mtime; /* Time of last modification */
>> sruct timespec st_ctime; /* Time of last status change */
>
> This typo is also present in POSIX, so we cannot change it (like the
> creat function).
Hi Christoph,
Florian was being very deadpan in his humor! The names
really are correct. In the header files, one can find
[[ # /usr/include/bits/stat.h
struct timespec st_atim; /* Time of last access. */
struct timespec st_mtim; /* Time of last modification. */
struct timespec st_ctim; /* Time of last status change. */
# define st_atime st_atim.tv_sec /* Backward compatibility. */
# define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec
# define st_ctime st_ctim.tv_sec
]]
And struct timespec is defined as
struct timespec {
time_t tv_sec; /* Seconds */
long tv_nsec; /* Nanoseconds */
};
Thanks,
Michael
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