File timestamp not updated by writes with current snapshot?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 04:05 PM 7/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>I updated my winsup sources from the CVS repository yesterday and
>built cygwin1.dll.  Using the new cygwin1.dll, I'm seeing something
>I've never seen before, so I suspect it is somehow related to the DLL,
>which is why I'm reporting it here.  Basically, a file's timestamp
>isn't being updated, despite the fact that data is being added to the
>end of it, until after it's closed.  Observe:
>
>$ (echo foo; ls -l foo 1>&2; sleep 60; echo foo; ls -l foo 1>&2) > foo
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        4 Jul 13 16:00 foo
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        8 Jul 13 16:00 foo
>$ ls -l foo
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        8 Jul 13 16:01 foo
>$ 
>
>The second ls output line above should say 16:01 but doesn't.
>
>Is this behavior known?  Is it intentional?


Windows has trouble with times/date resolution.  In that respect, this is 
known.  What DLL did you update from?  I see it with 1.3.2 and 1.1.8.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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