On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:40:53 am Greg Ewing wrote:
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
1. Add a st_crtime field which gets populated on filesystems
(Windows, ZFS, Mac) which can do so.
crtime looks rather too similar to ctime for my
liking. People who think that the c in ctime
means creation are
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:40:53 am Greg Ewing wrote:
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
1. Add a st_crtime field which gets populated on filesystems
(Windows, ZFS, Mac) which can do so.
crtime looks rather too similar to ctime for my
liking. People who think that the c in ctime
The stat module uses the st_ctime slot to hold two kinds of values
which are semantically different and which are frequently
confused with one another. It chooses which kind of value to put in
there based on platform -- Windows gets the file creation time and all
other platforms get the ctime.
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
1. Add a st_crtime field which gets populated on filesystems
(Windows, ZFS, Mac) which can do so.
crtime looks rather too similar to ctime for my
liking. People who think that the c in ctime
means creation are still likely to confuse them.
Why not give it a more
