accessing a file's creation time

[Eric Brunel]

hejduk wrote:

> i'm running 2.2 on linux 2.4.5 (slak 8.0.) my question is whether
> there is any way to access a file's creation time .  os.stat  provides
> access to constants that represent a file's last access time, last
> modification time, and last inode change time, but seemingly no way to
> get it's actual time of creation. i know the os stores this
> information somewhere (a simple "ls -l" demonstrates this), but i just
> can't seem to find a way to access it.

??? ls -l gives the last modification time, not the creation time. AFAIK, 
the "creation" time is not stored...
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