"creation time is not available on this platform currently"

[bobblkabb]

exa -bghluUa used to work now I'm getting an error message.
File manager (dolphin) shows creation time of files and folders.

exa 0.9 on openSUSE

[cyrinux]

Same for me on an updated archlinux with btrfs filesystem.
It was working well before.

[oscarcp]

Same here on arch linux, was working perfectly, now spits out "creation time is not available on this platform currently" in btrfs filesystems

[Lisible]

Same here, on ArchLinux with an ext4 filesystem.

[tsoernes]

Same on Fedora 30 with exa 0.9 on ext4

[roblav96]

Same here

exa v0.9.0

Ubuntu Server 19.10 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-22-generic x86_64)

@ogham @ariasuni

[ariasuni]

Rust doesn’t know how to get the created time on Linux. Now exa correctly reports an error instead of displaying a misleading time… See #457.

Support for created time on Linux has been added recently with rust-lang/rust#65094 but I think it’s not in any stable release yet. An exa executable produced by a next version of Rust will just work and display the created time, but for real this time.

[NightMachinery]

@ariasuni A better design choice would have been to print a warning on stderr, since this change is needlessly breaking working scripts.

[ariasuni]

I noticed the design wasn’t good so I vastly improved it in #616.

[ghost]

@ariasuni What's the status on this? The rust PR got merged and I'm still receiving this error on Arch Linux with an ext4 file system, even though stat works perfectly fine.

[ariasuni]

A new version hasn’t been released after this PR got merged, so this is perfectly normal.