[Libguestfs] [Hivex][PATCH v2] Report last-modified time of hive root and nodes

[Alex‎ Nelson]

On Aug 10, 2011, at 14:17 , Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:24:05PM -0700, Alex‎ Nelson wrote:
>> These changes are bringing the hivexml program into a file system
>> analysis suite that deals with many different file system types,
>> each with their own timestamp recording quirks, and even some file
>> formats which have yet more quirks.  We think that ISO 8601 is the
>> best umbrella output format, with an additional XML attribute noting
>> the time granularity (like FAT's 2-second and 1-day granularities).
>> That's why we're outputting strings in C, which, yes, feels wrong,
>> but simplifies parsing outside of the scope of hivexml.  We're
>> dealing with the time presentation proactively.
> 
> Reading this over again, I think you may be confusing how the hivex
> API/library returns the data and how hivexml displays the data.  The
> two are completely different things.  You can have hivexml displaying
> the data as an ISO 8601 string (in fact, I would say that is a very
> good choice).  But that does not in any way require that the C API
> returns a string.

Ah, understood.  Ok, in that case I'm fine with changing things as you suggested.  Next patch coming soon.

--Alex


> 
> Rich.
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