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birthtime

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birthtime() public

Returns the birth time for file.

Note that on Windows (NTFS), returns creation time (birth time).

File.new("testfile").birthtime   #=> Wed Apr 09 08:53:14 CDT 2003

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static VALUE
rb_file_birthtime(VALUE obj)
{
    rb_io_t *fptr;
    struct stat st;

    GetOpenFile(obj, fptr);
    if (fstat(fptr->fd, &st) == -1) {
        rb_sys_fail_path(fptr->pathv);
    }
    return stat_birthtime(&st);
}

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