Paul Eggert wrote:
> This misfeature is by design. It's called "file system tunneling". See, for
> example:
>
> http://dfstream.blogspot.com/2012/02/file-system-tunneling-in-windows.html
Thanks. It's worth extending the comment:
2017-05-14 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
stat-time tests: Improve comment.
* tests/test-stat-time.c: Add hyperlink, from Paul Eggert.
diff --git a/tests/test-stat-time.c b/tests/test-stat-time.c
index 25fe6c3..47849de 100644
--- a/tests/test-stat-time.c
+++ b/tests/test-stat-time.c
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ static char filename_stamp3[50];
/* Use file names that are different at each run.
This is necessary for test_birthtime() to pass on native Windows:
On this platform, the file system apparently remembers the creation time
- of a file even after it is removed and created anew. */
+ of a file even after it is removed and created anew. See
+ "Windows NT Contains File System Tunneling Capabilities"
+ <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/172190/> */
static void
initialize_filenames (void)
{
