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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2016-10-21 22:19:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2016-10-22 05:20:22 +0000 |
| commit | 528894e72f973c5db5dc76c975620754f7bbe5aa (patch) | |
| tree | bd4fc32180655bd1f9e935a2b75220c80ac8e3dd /configure.ac | |
| parent | d16295bc9b48a526f12237467536bac4220e53da (diff) | |
On UN*X, st_ctime is the last status change time, not the creation time.
That's the time the file's inode last changed, so size changes,
permission changes, etc. affect it. It's *not* the time the file was
created; most UN*Xes don't provide that. Newer versions of FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS do, but other UN*Xes don't appear to.
On Windows, at least according to Microsoft's documentation, st_ctime
*is* the creation time. Hopefully that's not the result of confusion on
the part of somebody at Microsoft.
Change-Id: I20743703f6ef66e40dff9004dc91bed46af6fad0
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/18378
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 9805e38f44..d03b3cccfa 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2426,6 +2426,12 @@ AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_flags]) +# We need to know whether "struct stat" has an "st_birthtime" member +# or an "__st_birthtime" member for the file set dialog. + +AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtime]) +AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.__st_birthtime]) + # We need to know whether "struct sockaddr" has an "sa_len" member # for get_interface_list(). |