Getting the last modified date of a file in C

Question

I want to get the last modified date of a file in C. Almost all sources I found use something along this snippet:

char *get_last_modified(char *file) {
    struct tm *clock;
    struct stat attr;

    stat(file, &attr);
    clock = gmtime(&(attr.st_mtime));

    return asctime(clock);
}

But the attr doesn't even have a field st_mtime, only st_mtimespec. Yet, when using this my Eclipse tells me that passing argument 1 of 'gmtime' from incompatible pointer type on the line clock = gmtime(&(attr.st_mtimespec));

What am I doing wrong?

PS: I'm developing on OSX Snow Leopard, Eclipse CDT and using GCC as Cross-Platform compiler

Answer 1

On OS X, st_mtimespec.tv_sec is the equivalent of st_mtime.

To make this portable, do

#ifdef __APPLE__
#ifndef st_mtime
#define st_mtime st_mtimespec.tv_sec
#endif
#endif

and then use st_mtime.