Question

I’m opening several files , and want to add to my struct the creation time of the file and the last write time. Is there a way I can do it?

Answer 1

Use stat().

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int stat(const char *path, struct stat *buf);

The struct stat contains several fields describing time and date information, in particular

time_t    st_atime;   /* time of last access */
time_t    st_mtime;   /* time of last modification */
time_t    st_ctime;   /* time of last status change */