While checking if an OSS project of mine (www.snobol4.org/csnobol4)
compiled cleanly under Cygwin, I was happy to discover that struct
stat contains file birth time as on various BSD based systems.
BUT, I was unhappy to find out that MacOS 10.15 and Cygwin 3.1.7 have
non-overlapping definitions for birth time information.
FreeBSD 12, NetBSD 9, and OSX 10.15 all have a "timespec" available as
"st_birthtimespec", but Cygwin does not.
On FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Cygwin the actual member of struct stat is
st_birthtim, but on OSX, the member is st_birthtimespec, and there is
no define for st_birthtim.
A st_birthtimespec define in cygwin/stat.h would make it easier to
write portable code.
Snips from .../stat.h, possible patch below:
==== /* $NetBSD: stat.h,v 1.69 2019/09/15 23:55:22 christos Exp $ */
struct timespec st_birthtim; /* time of creation */
#define st_birthtime st_birthtim.tv_sec
#define st_birthtimespec st_birthtim
#define st_birthtimensec st_birthtimespec.tv_nsec
==== * $FreeBSD: releng/12.1/sys/sys/stat.h 326023 2017-11-20 19:43:44Z pfg $
struct timespec st_birthtim; /* time of file creation */
#define st_birthtime st_birthtim.tv_sec
#define st_birthtimespec st_birthtim
NO st_birthtimensec
==== CYGWIN_NT-10.0 WinDev2005Eval 3.1.7(0.340/5/3) 2020-08-22 17:48 x86_64
Cygwin
timestruc_t st_birthtim;
#define st_birthtime st_birthtim.tv_sec
NO st_birthtimespec
NO st_birthtimensec
==== OSX 10.15
NO st_birthtim
struct timespec st_birthtimespec; /* time of file creation(birth) */
#define st_birthtime st_birthtimespec.tv_sec
NO st_birthtimensec
================================================================
>From f07900b9a8e9e56b04fac493f86196079bcf9001 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: phil <p...@ultimate.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 01:33:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add st_birthtimespec define
---
winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stat.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stat.h
b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stat.h
index 0e489d7a9..a5adf29f3 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stat.h
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stat.h
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ extern int lstat64 (const char *__restrict file_name,
#define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec
#define st_ctime st_ctim.tv_sec
#define st_birthtime st_birthtim.tv_sec
+#define st_birthtimespec st_birthtim
/* POSIX IPC objects are not implemented as distinct file types, so the
below macros have to return 0. The expression is supposed to catch
--
2.25.1
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