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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:13:34 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: utime Bug?
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In-Reply-To: <20011114194337.46026.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com>; from chadfowler@yahoo.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:43:37AM -0800

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:43:37AM -0800, chad fowler wrote:
> I'm a new cygwin user and a fairly lame C programmer. 
> However, I think I've discovered a bug.  When I find
> things like this, I usually assume it's my fault. 
> But, this seems to be at least inconsistent with other
> platforms.
> 
> When you use utime to set the actime to 0 (the epoch),
> stat will show actime as being whatever modtime is set
> to for that file.  If you set it to anything else (1,
> for example), actime is reflected accurately by stat.
> 
> Am I off base?  The same code on my Debian box returns
> the epoc for atime (instead of the modtime value).
> 
> Does this make sense?

Would you mind to create a small testcase?

Corinna

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