Re: gnulib support for st_birthtime

[Bruno Haible]

James Youngman wrote:
> 2007-03-24  James Youngman  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * lib/stat-time.h (get_stat_birthtime): New function for
>           retrieving st_birthtime as provided by UFS2 (hence *BSD).
>       * m4/stat-time.m4 (gl_STAT_BIRTHTIME): Probe for st_birthtime
>         and its variants.
>       * /modules/stat-time (configure.ac): call gl_STAT_BIRTHTIME.

This is Paul's domain; nevertheless I'd like to mention that native Woe32
platforms (mingw, msvc, but not Cygwin) implementation of stat() and
fstat() store the "file creation time" in st_ctime. This is even documented
on msdn.microsoft.com. Therefore you should be able to write

#if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
static inline int
get_stat_birthtime (struct stat const *st, struct timespec *pts)
{
  pts->tv_sec = st->st_ctime;
  pts->tv_nsec = 0;
  return 0;
}
#else
...
#endif

Bruno