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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:23:06 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@mail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Strange things with cygdrive
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Oh thanks having reassured me. But is there some tricks to change that
> user(0) and (horrible) date (01.01.1970)?

/cygdrive is not a real directory. That "horrible" metadata you're
complaining about isn't actually stored anywhere, it's generated by
the system when you ask for it.  A modification to the cygwin
filesystem code could change what it reports, but what would you have
it report?  What's the meaning of the "last modified" date on a
nonexistent directory that can't actually be modified?

I think having it return zero is perfectly reasonable, but there are
other reasonable choices.  I suppose it could be set to some otherwise
meaningful value like the build date..

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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