ctime: creation or change time?

[Eric Melski]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>>I understand that you're trying to be POSIX-like, but I wonder if doing
>>so at the cost of compatibility with the host OS is wise.  To be sure,
>>the implementation you have chosen will break some Windows
>>applications.
>>
>>It seems to me that ultimately you are emulating POSIX-like behavior on
>>top of what is fundamentally NOT a POSIX-like system.  If that is so,
>>then why not use a different implementation that is sure not to break
>>existing non-Cygwin Windows applications?  The proposal I made
>>previously (report Windows modify time as both Cygwin mtime and ctime)
>>would give Cygwin applications a reasonable approximation of ctime in
>>the POSIX sense, while retaining a correct value of creation time for
>>Windows applications.
> 
> 
> Your arguments would be a little more persuasive if you did more than
> postulate the surety of breakage and actually pointed to real breakage
> or, at least, demonstrated how a windows application would be harmed by
> cygwin's handling of ctime.

The problem described in the following post to this mailing list 
earlier today sounds like it is caused by Cygwin's new treatment 
of ctime:

     http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00165.html

Thanks,

Eric Melski


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