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cygwin python os.stat gives wrong ctime


According to the python docs, os.stat() gives the following for st_ctime:

"|st_ctime| - platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on Unix, or the time of creation on Windows"

To reproduce:
    1) touch foo
    2) wait a minute
    3) touch foo
    4) use python's os.stat() on the file foo

cygwin's python 2.7.10 gives (me) the same number for mtime, ctime, and atime:

posix.stat_result(st_mode=33276, st_ino=40532396646393057, st_dev=1079873317, st_nlink=1, st_uid=1001, st_gid=513, st_size=0, st_atime=1464482278, st_mtime=1464482278, st_ctime=1464482278)

However, cygwin's built-in stat command gives (correctly) the addtional "birth time", which is different:

    Access: 2016-05-28 20:37:58.748977000 -0400
    Modify: 2016-05-28 20:37:58.748977000 -0400
    Change: 2016-05-28 20:37:58.748977000 -0400
    Birth: 2016-05-28 20:36:34.514159100 -0400

The non-cygwin version of Windows python from python.org (v2.7.11) behaves correctly as per spec:

nt.stat_result(st_mode=33206, st_ino=0L, st_dev=0L, st_nlink=0, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=0L, st_atime=1464482278L, st_mtime=1464482278L, st_ctime=1464482194L)

Am I missing something, or is this a bug in cygwin's python? You could argue that ctime is properly "change" and not "birth", but that's not what the python spec says it should be on Windows.

More importantly, is there some other way of getting the "birth" time from within cygwin's python? I'm currently calling out to the cygwin shell using os.popen('stat "%W" <file>'), but that's not particularly efficient, and it doesn't give subsecond precision.

mitch

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