Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:24:00 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-3 Message-ID: <20051020132400.GC26262@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <Pine DOT OSF DOT 4 DOT 21 DOT 0510181859340 DOT 2152-101000 AT ax0rm1 DOT roma1 DOT infn DOT it> <loom DOT 20051019T160122-280 AT post DOT gmane DOT org> <20051019171128 DOT GR32583 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <43578ACD DOT 3020509 AT byu DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43578ACD.3020509@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:17:17AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/19/2005 11:11 AM: >>>utimes(dest,...); // at this point, timestamp is correct >>>fchmod(dest_desc,...); >>>close(dest_desc); // oops, timestamp changed >> >> >> Apparently NT overwrites the mtime timestamp on close, as long as write >> buffers are not written to disk at that time. Chris had an idea how to >> work around that in Cygwin so that it should work in most cases now. >> Please try the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > >Slick trick of searching for an open write descriptor visiting the same >file. But it begs the question - why not go one step further and >create/export futimes(), so that the application can inform cygwin which >descriptor to use, bypassing the search? Corinna, I think I win the bet, right? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/