SFTP File Create Time

[Wildcatii]

How can i get create time of the sftp item?
I can not find create time property in SftpFile class,just find LastWriteTime and LastAccessedTime.

[jimbobmcgee]

From what I can see in the code (e.g. at https://github.com/sshnet/SSH.NET/blob/develop/src/Renci.SshNet/Sftp/SftpFileAttributes.cs#L516), support for parsing SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_CREATETIME (0x10) (defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13#section-7.1) is not implemented.

This may be because many filesystems do not actually have the concept of create time -- Windows/NTFS certainly does but, since POSIX does not mandate it, many UNIX-likes do not include this detail.

SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_CREATETIME was introduced to the draft spec circa revision 3. Whether this is a deliberate design decision by the development team not to include non-POSIX attributes, or a desire to maintain standards/compatibility with the older drafts, I couldn't tell you. From the looks of https://github.com/sshnet/SSH.NET/blob/develop/src/Renci.SshNet/Sftp/SftpFileAttributes.cs, it might not be too difficult for you to patch rudimentary support in.