ext4 - getting at birth time (file create time) and getting/setting nanosecond time stamps and utime

[Steve French]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> wrote:
> Steve French wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> If you are trying to update it, you can use utimensat(2).
>>>
>>
>> Looks like that should work based on what I see in fs/utimes.c ... but
>> I have heard from two that think it doesn't work, so time to test it
>> ... (unfortunately
>> the libc is not new enough on this system ... ugh).

strace shows that touch on my ubuntu system still calls utimesat
(touch --version displays v6.10 2008).   What version of touch are you
running?



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Thanks,

Steve