Re: Support for st_birthtime

[James Youngman]

On 3/25/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to James Youngman on 3/24/2007 5:01 PM:
> >> > I have recently been working on support for st_birthtime.  This is a
> >> > UFS2 feature present in several versions of BSD.
> >>
> >> It was also recently added to CVS cygwin, since the NTFS filesystem also
> >> supports birthtime.
> >
> > Excellent.  Which struct stat field is this in?  st_spare99? :)
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> st_birthtime (for seconds), or st_birthtim (for struct timespec)
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q1/msg00122.html
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stat.h.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.8&r2=1.9

+#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?

James.