Re: Support for st_birthtime

[Eric Blake]

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According to James Youngman on 3/25/2007 4:12 AM:
> 
> +#ifdef __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__
> +  timestruc_t   st_birthtim;
> +#else
>   long          st_spare4[2];
> +#endif
> 
> Why not give st_spare4 a name more reminiscent of its actual purpose?

Because __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ has been defined ever since cygwin 1.5.0
several years ago; the only case where it is not defined is in a REALLY
old app compiled against cygwin 1.3.x.  And if you compile against a
version of cygwin that old, then those bits are meaningless (in other
words, for st_birthtim to be populated correctly, you have to use the
newer cygwin compilation environment).  I didn't make the patch, the
cygwin developers did.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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