Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:55:28 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Exposing a file's creation time via find(1) Message-ID: <20060324135528.GA15948@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20060324120618.GB17507@submonkey.net> References: <20060324120618.GB17507@submonkey.net>
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--OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:06:18PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: >=20 > While perusing my Daemon book I noticed that it mentioned the existence > of the st_birthtime field in struct stat. I then also noticed that not > many utilities expose this: the Daemon mentions dump(8), restore(8) and > the only other one I could find was stat(1). >=20 > The attached patch adds st_birthtime related primaries to find(1), being > -Bmin, -Btime, -Bnewer et al. These let you use an inode's real > creation time in find primitives. I have chosen 'B' over 'b' to match > the format specifier from stat(1). It seems to do the right thing on UFS > 1, 2 and MSDOS file systems, but some more testing would be appreciated. Note that there is a line out of place in the manpage diff - this is corrected in a later version of the patch at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ceri/find-Btime.diff Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEI/pQocfcwTS3JF8RAsEDAKCpWvhYLa3ebZ4PW0Go5HVcooowsQCeNYW9 io2yH0mtkPbz7hI+GqxAWBQ= =R6Mp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--
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