file times still not quite right with 1.5.14 on Windows 98

[Josef Drexler]

Jacek Piskozub wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is funny. I used the same test as Josef Drexler but on Windows ME 
> after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.14. Of course the filesystem is also FAT 
> (FAT32 in my case).
> 
> First I tried it from a DOS window:
> 
> C:\Download\test>touch test.txt
> C:\Download\test>ls -l test.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 piskozub mkgroup 0 Apr  3 23:16 test.txt
> C:\Download\test>ls -l --time=ctime test.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 piskozub mkgroup 0 Apr  3 23:16 test.txt
> C:\Download\test>echo > test.txt

Are you sure you didn't append with ">>" here?  That's the behaviour I 
got when appending.

> C:\Download\test>ls -l test.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 piskozub mkgroup 12 Apr  3 23:18 test.txt
> C:\Download\test>ls -l --time=ctime test.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 piskozub mkgroup 12 Apr  3 23:16 test.txt
> 
> I believe this is exactly what Josef saw with bash. But then, after 2 
> minutes, I start bash and try again:
> 
> C:\Download\test>bash
> BASH-2.05b$ echo > test.txt
> BASH-2.05b$ ls -l test.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 piskozub mkgroup 2 Apr  3 23:20 test.txt
> BASH-2.05b$ ls -l --time=ctime test.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 piskozub mkgroup 2 Apr  3 23:20 test.txt
> 
> Can you explain this?

I have no problems with mtime not getting set when new files are created 
(e.g. "echo > test.txt"), only when appending to existing files (e.g. 
"echo >> test.txt").

The only other difference I can think of is that the file was zero-byte 
in size in your first test.  I've never tried this with empty files.

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