On Jul 2, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Matej Horvat wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> I compiled myself a new kernel with two simple changes to  
> init_direntry in
> kernel\fatfs.c:

Thanks.  I too will make this change.  I don't use my dos partition  
much these days, (using macos mostly now, and a few linux boxes) but  
when I do, it'd be nice to have this set.  Always wondered myself why  
it wasn't done, but it never bothered me enough to go fix it. :)

And, as mentioned in the thread, few (if any) utilities actually  
supported it, so ...
But, thanks for the patch anyhow.


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