file creation timestamps wrong on msdos fs?

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Mon Nov 27 06:55:14 PST 2006


Rene Ladan wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme schreef:
 > > [...]
 > > That should fix the output of "ls -lUT" (please report).
 > Yep, with the file above:
 > 
 > rene at s000655:/media/stick>ls -lUT a-new-dos-file
 > -rwxr-xr-x  1 rene  wheel  0 27 nov 10:53:59 2006 a-new-dos-file
 > 
 > Time for yet another PR :)

Yes ...  Are you going to submit a PR, or shall I do it?

 > > However, the question remains what the vnode's ctime should
 > > be set to.  There's no such thing as an inode change time
 > > in FAT's directory entries.  Maybe it should simply be
 > > copied from the mtime.
 > Maybe, but how can you see the inode change time anyway?
 > 
 > 'man ls' and 'apropos inode' don't tell me.

ls -lc

Best regards
   Oliver

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