On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:38:36PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > I'm curious. Why do you particularly care what interface the kernel uses to > provide you with access to this attribute?
It's a matter of taste. The *BSD's have this right IMHO. It should be part of the stat information. A file timestamp is not an EA. Making it available that way just feels like an appalingly tasteless kludge. It offends the artist in me :-). > Or do you really want something like BSD's 'btime' which as I understand it > cannot be set. Would that be really useful to you? It is *already* useful to us, and is widely used in existing code. The occasions when btime is set are relatively rare, and at that point we store it in a separate EA for Windows reporting purposes. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
