I note that the macOS (15.6) manual includes the caveat:

The file generation number, st_gen, is only available to the super-user.


I don't know if that applies to the *BSD releases.  I don't know how much
of a problem that is for the proposed TZ code.



On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM Guy Harris via tz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2025, at 5:20 PM, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > macOS also checks struct stat's st_gen, which is easy and seems like a
> good idea on platforms that have st_gen.
>
> So all the 4.4-Lite derivatives, i.e. (Free,Net,Open,DragonFly}BSD as well
> as Darwin, and maybe others.



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