File save time

[nkumar85]

Hello All,

I need to get "time of first save" of a file. Which system/library calls can be used. I cannot use stat since linux modifies the access time when we open the file. Kindly help me in this regard.

Regards,
Nanda

[Athar]

*nix file systems don't keep track of file creation times. There's access time, modification (=file data change) time and change (=metadata change) time.

[nkumar85]

Thank you Athar for comment.