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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:50:54 -0400
To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: File timestamp not updated by writes with current snapshot?
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Yes, timestamp resolution is better on the NT family.  AFAIK, its not tied 
to the filesystem per se.  I'm not sure where Jonathan tried his test but
I tried mine on W2K/NTFS.

Larry
  
At 04:44 PM 7/13/2001, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Larry,
>
>Isn't the filesystem timestamp resolution much higher in NTFS compared to the FAT family?
>
>Randy
>
>
>At 13:33 2001-07-13, you wrote:
>>At 04:05 PM 7/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>> >I updated my winsup sources from the CVS repository yesterday and
>> >built cygwin1.dll.  Using the new cygwin1.dll, I'm seeing something
>> >I've never seen before, so I suspect it is somehow related to the DLL,
>> >which is why I'm reporting it here.  Basically, a file's timestamp
>> >isn't being updated, despite the fact that data is being added to the
>> >end of it, until after it's closed.  Observe:
>> >
>> >$ (echo foo; ls -l foo 1>&2; sleep 60; echo foo; ls -l foo 1>&2) > foo
>> >-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        4 Jul 13 16:00 foo
>> >-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        8 Jul 13 16:00 foo
>> >$ ls -l foo
>> >-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        8 Jul 13 16:01 foo
>> >$
>> >
>> >The second ls output line above should say 16:01 but doesn't.
>> >
>> >Is this behavior known?  Is it intentional?
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>Larry Hall


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