From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Christoph Kalchreuter <christoph@kalchreuter.de>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Typo in stat(2)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:38:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <060e7ecf-3590-2fcb-9f28-a1534d97ac7b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn63tpx4.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
On 9/30/20 2:22 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Christoph Kalchreuter:
>
>> There are three Letters "e" missing in Section "DESCRIPTION",
>> Subsection "The stat structure":
>>
>> struct timespec st_atim; /* Time of last access */
>> struct timespec st_mtim; /* Time of last modification */
>> sruct timespec st_ctim; /* Time of last status change */
>>
>> should possibly be:
>>
>> struct timespec st_atime; /* Time of last access */
>> struct timespec st_mtime; /* Time of last modification */
>> sruct timespec st_ctime; /* Time of last status change */
>
> This typo is also present in POSIX, so we cannot change it (like the
> creat function).
Hi Christoph,
Florian was being very deadpan in his humor! The names
really are correct. In the header files, one can find
[[ # /usr/include/bits/stat.h
struct timespec st_atim; /* Time of last access. */
struct timespec st_mtim; /* Time of last modification. */
struct timespec st_ctim; /* Time of last status change. */
# define st_atime st_atim.tv_sec /* Backward compatibility. */
# define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec
# define st_ctime st_ctim.tv_sec
]]
And struct timespec is defined as
struct timespec {
time_t tv_sec; /* Seconds */
long tv_nsec; /* Nanoseconds */
};
Thanks,
Michael
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 12:07 Typo in stat(2) Christoph Kalchreuter
2020-09-30 12:22 ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-30 19:38 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2020-10-01 6:20 ` Christoph Kalchreuter
2020-10-01 9:22 ` Jakub Wilk
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