"stat" on Tru64

[Blake Roberts]

Ok, this is close to the "stupid question" department. However, I have a Windows 2000 box that seems to be changing the timestamp of a file back one hour when the file goes through it. The file originates on a Tru64 5.1A PK4 machine. I was asked to find the UTC time stamp of the file on the Tru64 box.

In HP-UX, the command would be "stat" to find that. However, that command does not exist, to the best of my knowledge on Tru64. How would I go about doing this?

Regards,
--Blake Roberts

[Mark Grant]

Blake,

As far as I can tell there is no "stat" command on HP-UX either. There is the "stat()" standard function available within "C". I presume this is available on "Tru64" and it is a simple little program that can take advantage of it.

[Ralf Puchner]

On Windows it is important to know which API was used by the program to access the files. There are some MFC functions working with environment variables (TZ). In a country with daylight saving a difference can occure if this variable will not be set properly.

In Tru64 you can use the stat() function to read the timestamp informations.

[Blake Roberts]

It turns out that the problem was with Windows machines connected to a Samba share. There is a known "feature" out there which occasionally causes a Windows system to report the time one hour back if it was connected over the DST transition.

The fix was to reboot the Windows box. Now everything is working right.

Both of you were correct that there is a stat() function in Tru64 which I could use in a quick program. It turns out the MS fix was all that was needed.

Regards,
--Blake