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Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:37:54 +0100
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Subject:	Re: rebase keeps last modification time of DLL unchanged
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  7 23:07, Christian Franke wrote:
>> The rebase tool does not change last modification timestamp of each
>> DLL even if its data has changed. This is likely because Windows
>> "may" not update the timestamp for files written through a memory
>> mapped view.
>>
>> Is this an intended behavior of rebase?
> Why should rebase change the timestamp?  Apart from the rebasing, the
> DLL is still the same.  If you want to know when it has been last
> rebased, you can look into the file header:
>
>    $ objdump -p cygiconv-2.dll | grep 'Time/Date[^ ]'
>    Time/Date               Tue Mar  6 23:24:12 2012
>

It depends: Changing data without changing st_mtime avoids 
(unneeded|required) file copies during incremental backups, rsync, 
robocopy, ...

rebase does not explicitly (re)set the timestamp after rebasing. Is this 
by design?

It relies on weakly defined Windows behavior: "When modifying a file 
through a mapped view, the last modification timestamp *may* not be 
updated automatically."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366563.aspx

Christian


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