Exposing a file's creation time via find(1)

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 24 March 2006 11:50, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:40:58AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 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
> 
> That's the exact reason I didn't do it this round :)
> 
> Andrzej Tobola sent me this patch for ls -U pretty much immediately.

Yeah, I just committed it, so you don't have to worry about that bikeshed.
:)

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