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Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-3
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:17:17AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>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
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>> 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/
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>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
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