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Re: Re: cygwin python os.stat gives wrong ctime
- From: Mitch Deoudes <mitch at houseofpain dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 15:28:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: Re: cygwin python os.stat gives wrong ctime
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On 5/28/2016 10:35 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
On 5/28/2016 9:39 PM, Mitch Deoudes wrote:
According to the python docs, os.stat() gives the following for
st_ctime:
"|st_ctime| - platform dependent; time of most recent metadata
change on Unix, or the time of
creation on Windows"
cygwin emulates posix, so you should expect a posix-like result.
I understand your argument, and offer the following, which is from the
same section of the python docs:
"On other Unix systems (such as FreeBSD), the following attributes
may be available (but may be only filled out if root tries to use them):
* |st_birthtime| - time of file creation"
Suggesting that it's not "anti-POSIX" (unPOSIX? aPOSIX?) to provide the
information if it's available.
Anyway, I've found a more or less suitable workaround for now, batching
up the queries and calling out to the shell - so I'll leave it at that.
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