June 14, 2009
8:49 a.m.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:40:53 am Greg Ewing wrote:
1. Add a "st_crtime" field which gets populated on filesystems (Windows, ZFS, Mac) which can do so. "crtime" looks rather too similar to "ctime" for my
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: liking. People who think that the "c" in "ctime" means "creation" are still likely to confuse them.
Why not give it a more explicit name, such as "st_creationtime"?
My this bike-shed looks a bit greenish. How about: creation_time or, at least, st_creation_time
Speaking as somebody who thought the c in ctime meant creation, I'm +1 on this proposal with Greg's modification.
--Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels@Acm.Org