[PATCH 1 of 5] util: add filestat class to detect ambiguity of file stat

timeless timeless at gmail.com
Tue May 24 15:21:29 EDT 2016


FUJIWARA Katsunori wrote:
> BTW, _stat() C runtime library family can't get valid ctime on FAT
> (maybe, difference of internal implementation ?)

FAT12/FAT16 don't have those structures, and thus anything compiled to
the c api couldn't get a value, and thus the api doesn't give values.

VFAT added these features, but you can't break backwards compat by
changing an api, so, you have to make VFAT aware programs use a new
api.

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/fs/fat/fat-1.html


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