On: Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight...

[rbanffy]

It can happen with Apple, if you rely on a proprietary technology they control, but it cannot happen with Gnome or KDE because, if you don't like what they do, you can always roll out your own.

I see you are unfamiliar with modern *nix OSs. Mine gives me both creation time and access time:

  rbanffy@computer:~$ ls -l --time=atime a.out
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 rbanffy rbanffy 8378 2011-11-10 15:24 a.out
  rbanffy@computer:~$ ls -l --time=ctime a.out
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 rbanffy rbanffy 8378 2011-10-22 19:31 a.out

[WayneDB → rbanffy]

ctime is change time, not creation time.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20460/how-do-i-do-a-... "Note that the ctime (ls -lc) is not the file creation time, it's the inode change time."

So, like I said...yes you do have to roll your own to get it. Enjoy that.

[rbanffy → WayneDB]

Interesting. In this case, the creation time and i-node change time are the same - the file was written as new.

I see where you are going. I guess I'll have to move to FreeBSD to get file "birth time" support (or look into POSIX extended attributes). It's more or less a painless change. FreeBSD also has ZFS support, which is the filesystem to rule'em all. Either way, I don't expect Silverlight or WPF to run on FreeBSD.