Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:23:54 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Andrew Cottrell wrote:

> > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> >
> > > Function 7143 works on my Win2K box
> >
> > Does this include subfunction 3 (set last write time)?  Could you post
> > the source of your test program for 7143?
> >
> Source code is included in the attached ZIP. It also includes testing for
> file open handles for utime.

Testing on Windows 98 SE indicates that all the subfunctions of 7143 
which set the time do nothing.  They don't fail, but don't change the 
file's date/time, either.  This seems to contradict MS KB article which 
describes the problem as a failure with EACCES.