msdosfs and cd9660: stat(2) returns garbled birthtime

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Wed Dec 27 08:08:50 PST 2006


Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
 > at least msdosfs and cd9660 do not fill the birthtime for the stat(2)
 > syscall. Thus stat(1) will return different values per call:
 > [...]
 > The code in cd9660_getattr() and msdosfs_getattr() should be
 > augmented. But what value to put into the field? Clearly, a constant
 > would be preferred instead of an uninitialized value.

Please see PR kern/106018.  It fixes the msdosfs case;
it has already been committed a few weeks ago.

I haven't looked at the cd9660 code, but if you see
similar problems there, then I guess it needs a similar
fix.  ;-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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