[OpenAFS] 'vos examine', 'Last update' and date format

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Dan Pritts wrote:
> or better yet, submit a patch to vos so that everyone can have
> this functionality.

It is still a bit early to talk about it but the AFS Perl module
will be able to do all this soon.

SLAC sponsored a student to implement the still missing bos and vos
command APIs for the Perl module.

Soon, you will be able to do:
	use AFS::VOS;
	my $vos = AFS::VOS->new();
	my $volinfo = $vos->examine('root.cell');

	print "Last updated: ", $volinfo->{updateDate}, "\n";

which would print something like
	Last updated: 1046736123

We still have to sort out some "details" but the code is already all
there, so stay tuned...

-- Alf.

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