Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010713165236.0240fb80@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:26:42 -0400 To: Jonathan Kamens , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: File timestamp not updated by writes with current snapshot? In-Reply-To: <20010713203843.11034.qmail@lizard.curl.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20010713162617.016af9d0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20010713162617.016af9d0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:38 PM 7/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:33:12 -0400 > > From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" > > > > Windows has trouble with times/date resolution. In that respect, this is > > known. What DLL did you update from? I see it with 1.3.2 and 1.1.8. > >I updated from the current head, which I guess is 1.3.2+. > >Now that you mention it, I just tried the test with 1.1.8, and you're >right, the particular test case I mentioned happens there too. > >But what prompted me to send E-mail about this problem to the mailing >list isn't a test case which spans only one minute. It was seeing a >file being regularly updated with new data (coming from a >> bash >redirection) for *over forty minutes* without its timestamp being >updated. I could be wrong, but I don't think I've ever seen that with >1.1.8. > >Or perhaps I'm just on drugs and this problem has been around for a >long long time :-). I'm not sure exactly how long the problem may have existed either. It is a problem with the form, rather than the function. Splitting this up into separate statements all run from a script doesn't show the problem. Have you tried the same thing on other platforms? I'm just curious if the problem is Cygwin specific or not. I'm not near a functioning Linux box at the moment... :-( Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/