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Re: 1.5.21: file timestamp not updated after editing


On Jul 30 09:27, Alex Eng wrote:
> On 7/30/06, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >On Jul 29 19:29, Alex Eng wrote:
> >> After editing a file, the timestamp on the file (according to ls -l)
> >> is unchanged.  However if stat <filename> is executed, the change
> >> timestamp given in the output differs from that given in ls -l:
> >>
> >> $ ls -l foo.c
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 Alex 126 Jul 29 17:10 foo.c
> >> $ nano foo.c
> >> ### File is edited and saved ###
> >> $ ls -l foo.c
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 Alex 289 Jul 29 17:10 foo.c
> >> $ stat foo.c
> >>  File: `foo.c'
> >>  Size: 289             Blocks: 1          IO Block: 1024   regular file
> >> Device: a8dc98beh/2833029310d   Inode: 562949953426654  Links: 1
> >> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1004/    Alex)   Gid: (  513/    None)
> >> Access: 2006-07-29 18:19:09.921875000 -0700
> >> Modify: 2006-07-29 17:10:44.531250000 -0700
> >> Change: 2006-07-29 18:19:15.828125000 -0700
> >
> >I can't reproduce this problem at all.  [...]
> 
> I disabled Norton Antivirus 2005 and ZoneAlarm firewall, but the
> problem is still present.
> 
> I did some further troubleshooting and found that this problem doesn't
> occur anymore if I'm running Cygwin while Windows XP is in safe mode.
> But it happens again if I start Windows using the "Safe Mode With
> Networking" option.  I've been able to reproduce this consistently.

This points to some bad interaction with another piece of software on
your machine.  Probably something which installed a driver module.


Corinna

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