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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:26:42 -0400
To: Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl 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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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)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
> >  
> >  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... :-(




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