Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/13/23:39:48
Eric Blake wrote:
>>I'd like to ask people to test the latest snapshot as of today. It contains
>>two patches, one of them with some impact on how timestamps are used.
>>
>>The first patch is less important, it should just stop floppy access when
>>sync is called on Win2K boxes.
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>Doesn't seem to be any problem with this on my Win2k box at work (I still need to test XP and 98 when I get home)
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>>The second patch is this:
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>>In 1.5.13 and 1.5.14 we introduced touching the CreationTime stamp in
>>a way, which simulates a POSIX ctime using the CreationTime stamp.
>>This resulted in some complaints, the most important one that native
>>Windows applications might misbehave because of strange CreationTimes.
>>
>>The snapshot now contains a patch which changes the ctime handling as
>>follows:
>>
>>- Windows NT supports a fourth timestamp which is inaccessible from the
>> Win32 API. The NTFS filesystem actually implements it. It behaves
>> as a ctime in a POSIX-like fashion. Cygwin's st_ctime stat member now
>> contains this ChangeTime, if it's available.
>>
>>- Any other file system, which doesn't support the ChangeTime stamp
>> uses the LastWriteTime stamp as ctime. This comes relatively close
>> to the way ctime behaves in POSIX.
>>
>>- The CreationTime stamp is neither read nor changed programatically by
>> Cygwin now. This should solve the aforementioned problems for native
>> Win32 applications.
>>
>>Please download from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ and test.
>>
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>The second patch caused a regression in the coreutils test suite:
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>$ touch -c none
>touch: setting times of `none': Permission denied
>$ echo $?
>1
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>This used to work in 1.5.14, and POSIX requires that it is a nop with exit status 0.
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>Eric Blake
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The snapshot is working for me on Windows 98. These are the programs
that have run:
basename.exe, clamd.exe, echo.exe, id.exe, mutt.exe, nano.exe, rm.exe,
sort.exe, ssmtp.exe,
tin.exe, uname.exe.
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