Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Jul 22 2010 - 08:15:25 EST


Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Linux already has a creation time field, it's called otime (there is no "b"
> in "creation"), and you will find scattered fragments of that all over the
> kernel (foremost, fs/jfs/, now btrfs, and I also notice sysvipc having
> something with that name).

It is? It's called crtime in Ext4. st_btime, however, would be compatible
with BSD's stat, and Samba would just use it by way of autoconf magic if it
appeared.

David
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