On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Indraneel Mukherjee <indro.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > It seems that Linux does NOT provide a File Creation Time field. > > There is atime(file access time) & ctime(inode change time) & mtime(file > modification time) but NO field for File Creation Time. Why is it so? > > Regards, > Indro I don't know the answer, but it was a decision made decades ago when UNIX was all there was. Linux made a decision to be UNIX compatible, so there you are. ie. Per stat(2): These system calls conform to SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. Getting Linux to break that compatibility is very unlikely in my opinion. For filesystems like NTFS that have 2 fields (file creation time and file metadata change time) I don't know if Linux maintains the file creation time or not. And if it does, I don't know if their is a userspace API to retrieve it. HTH Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
