[issue8002] on OSX the file creation date not available in os.stat

[Ronald Oussoren]

Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> added the comment:

To be more precise: see issue8001.

The OSX 10.5 introduces a new version of stat 'stat64' that exposes additional information to posix-style programs, amongst which is the file creation date. 

This field is not present in earlier editions of OSX and is also not present on other platforms. That is, the field is not the same as the "ctime" field which contains the timestamp for the last metadata change for a file.

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