bugfindutils - Bugs: bug #61327, Support for birth time

 
 

bug #61327: Support for birth time

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 10 Oct 2021 02:11:15 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  find Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  berny
Originator Name:  Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  4.8.0
Fixed Release:  None
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Mon 29 Nov 2021 10:03:07 AM UTC, comment #4: 


> On Linux, `find -printf %BT` produces empty string even if the operating system and filesystem support birth times.


That's true, but GNU/Linux does not provide it via the stat() system call
but via statx() instead.  And that's what I wrote in comment #1: we'll have to
change find(1) to the statx() system call like ls(1) does to support birth
time on GNU/Linux.

Bernhard Voelker <berny>
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Mon 29 Nov 2021 07:27:13 AM UTC, comment #3: 


> This directive produces an empty string if the underlying
> operating system or filesystem does not support birth times.


I do not think the above statement is accurate.  On Linux, `find -printf %BT` produces empty string even if the operating system and filesystem support birth times.

Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Sat 27 Nov 2021 11:42:24 PM UTC, comment #2: 

It seems this took a while ...

I pushed the commit to document the %B format directive of
`find -printf` at:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=b1b58be2b290ffa600988e747d29bd8759a61052

Bernhard Voelker <berny>
Group administrator
Mon 11 Oct 2021 01:16:52 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Well, find(1) does support birth time - both in -newerXY (with 'B' for X or Y)
and in -printf '%Bk' (with the time format as specified by k like for
%Ak, %Ck and %Tk).  It's in since 2007:

  https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=4d3b4e4a285f

The implementation relies on the support of the underlying stat(2)/lstat(2) functions
and whether the struct stat provides the birth time.  Unfortunately, our main
platform GNU/Linux does not have it.  Instead, we'd have to switch to the
newer statx(2) function like in coreutils' ls(1) or stat(1).

Finally, the documentation for -printf %Bk is missing.
I'll come up with a documentation patch soon.

Bernhard Voelker <berny>
Group administrator
Sun 10 Oct 2021 02:11:15 PM UTC, original submission:  

These days file managers, ls and stat (--printf=%w) support birth time.

Is there a plan for find to support printing birth time in the future?

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    2021-11-27 berny StatusNone Fixed
        ReleaseNone 4.8.0
    2021-10-11 berny Assigned toNone berny

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