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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:31:22 +1100 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To: Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru>
Cc: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <200803240447.m2O4lcCm096344@hostel.avtf.net>
Subject: Re: random st_birthtime
References: <776B93361B7BEE4FAD9E720FFBC746B6BDDB63@34093-EVS4C2.exchange.rackspace.com>
 <20080321130531.R58941@delplex.bde.org> <200803240447.m2O4lcCm096344@hostel.avtf.net>

>Number:         122153
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Re: random st_birthtime
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    linimon
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 27 11:40:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    Thu Mar 27 16:04:07 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Thu Mar 27 16:04:07 UTC 2008
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 On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
 
 > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:44:43 +1100 (EST); Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
 >...
 >> msdosfs is the only file system which initializes unsupported birthtimes
 >> correctly.  It sets va_birthtime.tv_sec to -1, which becomes (time_t)-1,
 >> which is the error value for a time_t though it is often misinterpreted
 >
 > But VFAT supports file creation time in on-disk directory format. Should
 > msdosfs be fixed to support them rather returning -1 ?
 
 Doesn't it already do this?  Part of the fix for bogus setting of
 va_ctime in msdosfs was to use de_CTime to set va_birthtime iff de_CTime
 is available.  de_CTime used to be used to set va_ctime.
 
 Bruce
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Thu Mar 27 16:03:38 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
I still don't know what PR this thread is a followup to. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->linimon 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Mar 27 16:03:38 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122153 
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