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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:24:29 +1000
> >
> > Btw, did they work on directories, i.e. could you change the time
> > stamp of a directory?
> Yes I could change the time stamp of a directory on Win 2K.

So at least we gained something by switching to 7143h.

> On Win 98 when I tested it I could not change the timestamp of a directory.

Windows 9X (and DOS) don't allow to change the timestamp of a
directory.  Function 7143h silently does nothing for a directory on
those systems, while functions of the 57xx family cannot be used on a
directory because they require a file handle, and you cannot `open' a
directory.

> Should setting time on a directory fail?

It should fail if the OS doesn't let us do that.  So it should succeed
on W2K and XP, but fail on other systems.  If you build `touch' with
the latest patch to `utime', do you see this behavior?

> To save time again i have attached an updated utime.c patch that fails when
> trying to set the time on a directory as occurs with the exisiting code on
> Win 9x.

Sorry, I don't understand: this code doesn't do anything special for
directories.  What change against the previous version of this code
stopped the support for directories?