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Questions - filemtime

Get the mtime of a symlink and not its target in Python

In Python (and Python2) on macOS, when I use os.path.getmtime('/path/to/a/symlink') I get the modification time of the symlink's target. - How do I get instead the modification time of the symlink it...
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halloleo

python

symlink

filemtime

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As @LeiYang hinted in a comment, use os.lstat instead. However, the result is not an mtime float, but rather a stat_result structure. How to extract the mtime information see stat — Interpreting stat(...
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halloleo

Linux kernel 5.4 how to change code that modifies status change time of a file?

I've found Setting creation or change timestamps, I want to try kernel modification path from the linked answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17066309/14557599. However, the answer is 8 years old and a...
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Martian2020

linux

kernel

filemtime

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I've tried grep: ~/Downloads/linux-5.15.12$ find . -name '*.c' -type f -exec bash -c 'grep " notify_change(" {} && ls -l {} && echo' \; I found the code where one could have...
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