os.getCreationTime is incorrect/impossible on Posix systems (original) (raw)

The value that os.getCreationTime returns on posix systems is derived from stat.st_ctime, which is the time a files attributes were last changed.

On Linux and Mac OSX, stat.st_birthtimespec (or depending on age, just st_birthtime) is available.

Either this should be fixed, a warning should be put in the documentation concerning this, a deprecation notice be put in place, or both.