Anyway to change the file create date?

[wil]

Dear All,

In the linux platform, is there anyway I can in a C program change the
file create date?

Thanks,
wil.

 

[Rouben Rostamian]

Dear All,

In the linux platform, is there anyway I can in a C program change the
file create date?

No record of a file's creation date is kept in unix (and linux)
systems. The file system may keep a record of change, access and
modification times only.

Do "man 2 utime" for details.

comp.unix.programmer is the right place to ask for further questions
on this issue.

 

[Dan Pop]

In the linux platform,

If you need a linux solution, ask in Linux/Unix programming newsgroup.

is there anyway I can in a C program change the file create date?

Nope: C files have no timestamps. But Unix files do.

Dan

 

[Gordon Burditt]

In the linux platform, is there anyway I can in a C program change the

No record of a file's creation date is kept in unix (and linux)
systems. The file system may keep a record of change, access and
modification times only.

Actually, on some UNIX systems, such as FreeBSD 5 when using a UFS 2 filesystem,
there is a "file birth" date. Usually the reference to a "creation date" is
from some bad documentation that called the st_ctime element of struct stat
a "creation time" rather than an "file changed time".

Do "man 2 utime" for details.

man 2 utime on FreeBSD 5 refers me to man 2 utimes, which discusses file birth
dates.

comp.unix.programmer is the right place to ask for further questions
on this issue.

Gordon L. Burditt

 

[Villy Kruse]

Actually, on some UNIX systems, such as FreeBSD 5 when using a UFS 2 filesystem,
there is a "file birth" date. Usually the reference to a "creation date" is
from some bad documentation that called the st_ctime element of struct stat
a "creation time" rather than an "file changed time".

which isn't the same type of change as is recorded in the modification time.

Villy