Re: Setting file creation date
Re: Setting file creation date
- Subject: Re: Setting file creation date
- From: James Peach <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:18:26 -0700
On Jun 28, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Dragan Milić <email@hidden> wrote:
> So, copyfile() function doesn’t restore the creation date of a copied file to original’s creation date. That’s understandable since there’s not really such timestamp metadata available in Darwin (ok, there is st_birthtime in 64-bit environment). However, I need copy functionality to restore the creation date as well.
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> I can set creation date from Cocoa using -[NSURL setResourceValue:forKey:error:], where key=NSURLCreationDateKey, but I’m interested if there’s a way to do it without jumping into Cocoa and staying on the POSIX level. st_birthtime doesn’t seem settable, at least not with the utimes()/futimes() call.
Use setattrlist(2) to set ATTR_CMN_CRTIME
J
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