Re: [Boost-Users] Why isn't the "last access time" part of the filesystem library?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-06 11:53:24

At 01:02 AM 5/6/2003, richard_fanta wrote:

 >Looking at the filesystem library and the attributes work in boost-
 >sandbox, I don't immediately see "last access time" being available
 >for a file or directory.
 >
 >"Last access time" was included in Dietmar Kuehl's original dir_it.
 >
 >Can someone kindly tell me why this was removed?  It's highly useful,
 >and part of every filesystem that I've seen.

ISO/IEC 9660:1999 filesystems don't supply a "last access" time stamp, 
perhaps because the original uses were on write-once media.

Perhaps we should do more to support attribute query within the main 
library, but I don't really think we should include any that aren't 
reliably supported by at least POSIX, Windows, and ISO-9660 systems.

--Beman