[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #10078: Incomplete API with respect to file related dates (cration, modification, access)

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #10078: Incomplete API with respect to file related dates (cration, modification, access)
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-29 09:38:36

#10078: Incomplete API with respect to file related dates (cration, modification,
access)
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 Reporter:  David Lastovicka <david@…>  |      Owner:  bemandawes
     Type:  Feature Requests            |     Status:  new
Milestone:  To Be Determined            |  Component:  filesystem
  Version:  Boost 1.55.0                |   Severity:  Problem
 Keywords:                              |
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 The following features are missing:
 - read file's creation date
 - read file's last access date
 - read file's creation date with a precision higher than seconds
 - read file's last access date with a precision higher than seconds
 - read file's last access date with a precision higher than seconds
 - allow to detect capabilities of the underlying filesystem (e.g. support
 for creation and last access date that are not supported by all systems,
 or finding out date precision supported by the current filesystem)

 Possible implementation notes:
 - How to get high precision file date on Linux
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13382695/how-to-get-last-modification-

 time-of-a-file-with-epoch-time-format-precision-mi
 - How to get high precision file date on Windows
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364946.aspx


 Example of current use of this feature in existing applications:

 ls --full-time

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10078>
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