RFE: provide an efficient way to retrieve Unix ctime (changed-time)

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/10/2017 13:38, Marc Strapetz wrote:
> During a Files.walkFileTree(), UnixFileAttributes seem to be populated 
> with all available file system information, especially st_ctime_sec 
> and st_ctime_nsec, but currently there is no way to access this 
> information (except of using reflection-based hacks).
>
> As suggested in a comment by Alan Bateman on stackoverflow.com[1], 
> this information could be made available directly through 
> PosixFileAttributes.
>
Right, there's no type safe way to get this through the standard API 
although it can be obtained by attribute name using 
Files.getAttribute(file, "unix:ctime").

As noted, it could potentially be exposed by PosixFileAttributes if 
there was a compelling reason, it just hasn't been important to date.

-Alan