On Jul 20 20:13, Eric Blake wrote: > SUCCESS! The following patch works for both read-only and writeable files. > Doing the work on the original handle is not enough - it has to be flushed to > disk so as not to be lost by later state changes. And doing the work on the > duplicate is not enough, since based on the procmon output, it looks like > MVFS > caches information per handle, and with no reason to invalidate that cache, > it > will just overwrite the disk state on close. But the combination of working > on > the duplicate handle to flush the change to disk, followed by repeating the > action on the original handle, is enough to force MVFS to realize that we > meant > business. And BOTH utimens and fchmod need this treatment (utimens alone > fixed > the writable file case, but not the read-only case).
How cute. I have reworked the patch slightly to encapsulate the MVFS code somewhat more. I've checked it in. Please try if it still works as advertised. Thanks for the thorough testing, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
