Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/05/04:57:56
Forgive my ignorance just wondering what does PERROR has to do with
st_ctime and st_mtime. You mean when you redirect stderr to a file?
Greg
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Vinay Kumar wrote:
> Hi all,
> I ran PCTS on cygwin 1.5.5.1 and found some problem. According to
> standard document of posix conformance following function need to update
> the st_ctime and st_mtime fields of the underlying file. These functions
> are not doing so. Is there any specific reason for that? Is it
> implementation limitation or a design contraint?
>
> fclose(11A), fflush(04A), fputc(04A), fputs(04A),freopen(26A,27A), fseek(11A),
> perror(04A), printf(11A), fprintf(11A), vprintf(11A), vfprintf(12A), putc(11A), puts(11A), remove(18A),
> rewind(4A), creat(37A,38A), link(39A), unlink(25A),rmdir(23A),
> rename(43A), stat(29A), fstat(13A), chmod(24A), utime(25A).
>
> Functions written above are failing in updating the st_ctime and st_mtime
> fields of the underlying, which is a basic assertion according to POSIX.1.
> The example of one assertion is below
> 11A - When the stream is writable and buffered data is caused
> to be written, then a call to fclose(stream) marks for update the st_ctime
> and st_mtime fields of the underlying file.
>
> Any help in this regard is appreciated.
>
>
> regards
> Vinay
>
> Note: fclose(11A) means Assertion number 11 for function "fclose" in
> standard document "IEEE std 2003.1-1992 Test Methods for Measuring
> Conformance to Posix-Part1 System Interface"
>
>
>
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