X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:36:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: modification time of standard input is wrong Message-ID: <20100328183606.GA9437@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20100317115612 DOT GH6505 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20100317182454 DOT GV6505 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20100317184338 DOT GA30974 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100317184338.GA30974@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:43:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Right. And, as far as I can see, there is no mechanism within gzip to >set the time to something special if stdin is not a regular file. It >always seems to use the time that it gets from fstat(). On linux that >apparently is today's date. > >I guess if we want to be compatible we should change this but it isn't >something for 1.7.2. I'll put it on my todo list. I've made this change. It is in today's snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple