From 528894e72f973c5db5dc76c975620754f7bbe5aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guy Harris Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:19:46 -0700 Subject: On UN*X, st_ctime is the last status change time, not the creation time. That's the time the file's inode last changed, so size changes, permission changes, etc. affect it. It's *not* the time the file was created; most UN*Xes don't provide that. Newer versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS do, but other UN*Xes don't appear to. On Windows, at least according to Microsoft's documentation, st_ctime *is* the creation time. Hopefully that's not the result of confusion on the part of somebody at Microsoft. Change-Id: I20743703f6ef66e40dff9004dc91bed46af6fad0 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/18378 Reviewed-by: Guy Harris --- configure.ac | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'configure.ac') diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 9805e38f44..d03b3cccfa 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2426,6 +2426,12 @@ AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_flags]) +# We need to know whether "struct stat" has an "st_birthtime" member +# or an "__st_birthtime" member for the file set dialog. + +AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_birthtime]) +AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.__st_birthtime]) + # We need to know whether "struct sockaddr" has an "sa_len" member # for get_interface_list(). -- cgit v1.2.1