Re: getting file creation date from NTFS
Re: getting file creation date from NTFS
- Subject: Re: getting file creation date from NTFS
- From: "Paul Sanders" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 19:07:02 +0100
> At the BSD layer, getattrlist() is the way to go here, with the ATTR_CMN_CRTIME attribute.
>From http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/getattrlist.2.html:
"Not all volumes support getattrlist(). The best way to test whether a volume supports this function is to simply call it and check the error result. getattrlist() will return ENOTSUP if it is not supported
on a particular volume."
I would hazard a guess that NTFS volumes don't support this. It's also a complicated API just to get a file time! The more I see of this, the more I think that the Carbon File Manager is the best option. I plan to review my own code in the light of this thread. I'm not sure whether stat returns local times or UTC (it returns local times on Windows). I am often on UTC here so it's not always possible to tell. But, luckily, it is summer :)
Paul Sanders.
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