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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 22:11:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: file times still not quite right with 1.5.14 on Windows 98
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On Apr  3 15:54, Josef Drexler wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> >The bug is not that ctime was touched, but that mtime was not
> >touched.  Normally, Windows updates mtime automatically if you edit a
> >file, only the ctime needed special treatment from cygwin.  I have no
> >idea why Win98 is not touching the mtime on appending or truncation.
> 
> Oh, I have no problem with ctime changing, but mtime not changing is
> definitely a bug in cygwin.  It must somehow intentionally copy the old
> mtime when a file is modified.  If I repeat the sequence I posted using 

It's not exactly Cygwin, it's the incredible braindead Windows 95/98/Me
and I'm more and more wondering why anybody is still using it voluntarily.
No offence meant, I'm just venting.

Cygwin is touching ctime right before closing the file, when a write or
one of chmod/chown/acl has been called successfully.

Win98 is apparently "confused" by the fact that ctime is changed to a value
bigger than the modification time and then simply refuses to change the
modification time on file close.  I first thought this might be a FAT
problem, but NT changes the modification time just fine.  I can't stop
shaking my head about 9x.


Corinna

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