Errors out if creation time not supported

[jgreenbaum]

Describe the bug

binsider fails to load an elf file from a file system that doesn't support creation. Instead it reports the error "IO error: creation time is not available for the filesystem"

To reproduce

Run binsider with a file argument on a file system without ctime support, like an NFS mount or tmpfs.

Expected behavior

binsider should load the elf file, but not display a creation time

Software information

• Operating system: RHEL 8
• Rust version: 1.77.2
• Project version: HEAD

Additional context

I worked around it by modifying src/file.rs to set FileDateInfo.birth to "".into() if metadata.created().is_err(). You might want to implement something different.

[orhun]

Thanks for the report and sharing your workaround!

Added a fix here: #25

Do you think there might be other edge cases where e.g. modify or change time is not supported as well? Should we take measures for them as well?

[sassman]

I ran into the same issue by running it on docker from an apple silicone machine

❯ docker run --platform linux/amd64 -v ${PWD}:/mnt -w /mnt --rm -it ubuntu:latest /bin/bash

[orhun]

Going to be fixed with the upcoming release :)