Re: File Creation Time

Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:12:08 -0800
Sam Flory <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a way to get creation time for a file on a windows cifs server?
> If yes is there a command or system call to get it?
> 

Not currently, no. CreationTime in the returned attributes are pretty
much ignored, primarily because we don't have a place to put in in the
POSIX stat struct.

You could maybe consider doing something like faking up an xattr with
that info, but the code for that doesn't exist today.

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Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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