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layout of stat (2), time structure
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| Bittweiler 2007-02-23, 7:10 pm |
| I know the layout of the stat struct is in the man pages but it
doesn't say what the layout of the time related structures are. i
know that st_atime, st_mtime, and st_ctime
are these within the time structure are is there other information
within the time structure.
I ask because I'm writing a common lisp interface to the stat function
so I need to know the layout of the time structure within the stat 2
().
Thanks in advance ;-)
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| Mark Rafn 2007-02-23, 7:10 pm |
| Bittweiler <daBittweiler@gmail.com> wrote:
>I know the layout of the stat struct is in the man pages but it
>doesn't say what the layout of the time related structures are.
There is no layout. It's a time_t, which is the number of seconds since the
epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC).
>I ask because I'm writing a common lisp interface to the stat function
>so I need to know the layout of the time structure within the stat 2
See the man pages for ctime(), gmtime(), and localtime() for more
human-friendly representations.
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Mark Rafn dagon@dagon.net <http://www.dagon.net/>
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| Beej Jorgensen 2007-02-23, 7:10 pm |
| In article <1172266952.820161.10080@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Bittweiler <daBittweiler@gmail.com> wrote:
>I know the layout of the stat struct is in the man pages but it
>doesn't say what the layout of the time related structures are. i
>know that st_atime, st_mtime, and st_ctime
>are these within the time structure are is there other information
>within the time structure.
time_t isn't a struct... it's probably an int of some sort, but might be
a float.
# time_t and clock_t shall be integer or real-floating types.
-Beej
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