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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-11 09:08:14

At 07:23 AM 5/10/2003, Beman Dawes wrote:
 >At 11:21 AM 5/9/2003, Ben Hutchings wrote:
 >
 > >> What to do if the filesystem doesn't attach any time at all to
 > >> a file? Fail at compile time? Always return some date in the
 > >> past, like January 1, 1900, that is impossible as a real mdate
 > >> (since computers were not invented yet) and so can be relied
 > >> upon to indicate "no date available"?
 > >
 > >Use std::time_t(-1) to be consistent with std::time and
 > >std::mktime.
 >
 >Makes sense.

OK, a last_write_time() function has been added to CVS. See operations.hpp 
docs.

Thanks for the suggestions!

--Beman