On 30/09/2016 10:45 AM, Bob Rudis wrote:
Since there has been a recent tweak to the functionality of Sys.setFileTime() I thought it might be an opportune time to ask a question regarding the decision to set both access and modification times (i.e. settime.actime = settime.modtime = (int)ftime; ) vs provide a parameter for each.
Do note that it doesn't do that on Windows; it only sets the mtime. However, one of us has a memory that on some versions of Windows that counts as an access, so both may end up being changed.
Might it be possible to change the behavior to accept two parameters (one for active and one for modtime) but default to setting both the same (to preserve existing functionality)? If there was a compelling reason to have it set both and not allow distinct settings, that's not an issue (I'll just keep it as a local utility function in my personal pkg).
It would be possible to change, but would take time. Since we don't need it for R's purposes, and you already have it, it seems like a low priority.
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