On Wed, 12 May 2010 17:53:38 +0000 Knowledge Seeker <knosee...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > Is there a way to set birth time to a value greater(newer) than the actual > birth time (not in the future, but not the current time)? > The man page utimes(2) says that is only possible to change to an older > value. > > I saw a way to do this by opening a new file, coping the data, setting the > other attributes, then calling utimes 2 times to set the birth and the > modification time. > > Is there a way to change it without creating a new file? > Not with the current code. vfs_syscalls.c:setutimes() explicitly checks that the new time is less than va_birthtime. Interestingly enough, there's code in the routine to handle what this comment in utimes(2) mentions, but it's not implemented yet. "Ideally a new system call will be added that allows the setting of all three times at once." -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
