On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:02:16PM +1000, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:02:18 Dan Oriani wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Stroller wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 July 2014, at 6:54 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > I am running Gentoo Linux, which I update on a ~daily basis. > > > > ... > > > > solfire:/home/user>fstat smartlog.txt > > > > > > What package provides `fstat`, please? > > > > > > I don't have it installed on this machine, and the first google > > > hit for "fstat gentoo" suggests it's a BSD command, unavailable > > > on Linux. > > > > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1853116.html#1853116 > > > > > > Stroller. > > > > Not to get terribly off topic here, but fstat is, in fact, a C call. I > > wonder if this is simply a user-made tool. If you look at code > > examples for this call, it's not terribly difficult to use at all. > > > > Actually, I wonder if the tool this user is using pulls the wrong > > field and calls it 'year'. > > I don't think it's the wrong field. Most (all?) C time calls use "years since > 1900" instead of the actual year value, so the 114 return values from the > original message look like they are just the raw returned data. > > (See 'man time.h' for more information) > > In 1999 or earlier this just gave you the correct 2-digit year value so yes, > this does like like a Y2K problem, if not a very serious one. > > > -- > Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ > Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: > http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro >
Yeah, you're definitely right there. I was thinking that it might have been another field, I wasn't even thinking of the year difference. Though I still wonder where he got this program from. It doesn't appear to be in any packages at all, doesn't even seem to be a part of any linux basesystems. -- Dan Oriani redchops.com (Website perpetually under construction)
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