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