Re: st_brthtime support for findutils-4.3.x

[James Youngman]

On 3/6/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> Cygwin may be adding the feature of st_birthtime in the upcoming 1.7.0
> (sparked by this thread), since NTFS is another filesystem that tracks
> creation time alongside change time.  Findutils will be an interesting
> test case to see that cygwin gets it implemented nicely.  Are there any
> standards documents that mention st_birthtime, or is it just an
> unstandardized extension at the moment?

I think it is unstandardised.  It had previously been called
st_createtime but Eric Allman changed it to st_birthtime to avoid
potential confusion with st_ctime.  I think we should ask the FreeBSD
implementers if there is any standard or guideline that (other)
implementers of the feature should be aware of.  I have CC'ed Kirk
McKusick.

The relevant change in FreeBSD to src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c was
comitted in 2002 by Kirk McKusick
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c#rev1.260).

James.