On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Matej Horvat wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that many files on my FreeDOS partition do not have a creation > time, or rather they claim to be created in 1980. For a long time I > thought that this is a bug, but today I looked at the kernel source code > and found out that file creation times are never actually set. > > The file hdr\fat.h does define "dir_crtime" and "dir_crdate" in the > "dirent" structure, but a search didn't reveal them being used anywhere.
<snip> > This message > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01105.html > > and this Wikipedia article > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Design_of_the_FAT_file_system&oldid=614948461#Directory_entry > > both mention file creation times as something that was added to the FAT > design at the same time as long filenames. Does the FreeDOS kernel not > support them because of patent issues? I can hardly imagine a simple > feature like this being patented. > > So is there any reason they're not supported or is this just an oversight? > > Matej Horvat > http://matejhorvat.si/ I think you'd need an LFN plugin to support that feature... -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
