Re: ctime != create time patch

Björn JACKE <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> there is a ctime in the Windows world - there it is "create time" - 
> and there is a ctime in the Unix world - there is is the (inode) 
> change time. In POSIX there is no time stamp for create time and there 
> are lots of documentations which falsly refer to ctime as "create 

A quick check tells me that the text you like to change in the pax maual
is taken from the current POSIX standard......

An attempt change in this area only makes sense in form of a POSIX defect 
report.

> time". The only Unix systems I know which have something like a create 
> time are some *BSD systems (FreeBSD for example) - there this 4th 
> timestamp is called "birth time". Joerg - do you consider to support 
> such a 4th timestamp in star, too?

It would be possible to enhance the POSIX.1-2001 extended header code
to support this.

Jörg

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