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/
