Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:40:58 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Subject: Re: Exposing a file's creation time via find(1) Message-ID: <200603241041.00233.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060324135528.GA15948@submonkey.net> References: <20060324120618.GB17507@submonkey.net> <20060324135528.GA15948@submonkey.net>
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On Friday 24 March 2006 08:55, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:06:18PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > 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). > > > > 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 Could you add a new flag to ls to use birthtime for -t while you are at it? Good luck finding a flag to use though. :-P -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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