cygdrive uses incorrect date

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Sat Apr 15 16:00:00 GMT 2006


On 14 April 2006 18:49, Antoine Solomon wrote:

> Hello all,
> are there any instructions on how to rebuild the cygwin.dll ?   this
> 1969 problem on windows2000 is a serious problem because of our
> license server is unable to check the date on /cygdrive/.   Also
> current time on my windows systems are all in the GMT eastern time.

  You didn't answer this interesting question yet:

>> The main question is: how does the Microsoft date function even get to see
>> the date on /cygdrive?  /cygdrive is not visible to non-Cygwin
>> applications (unless it's a real directory, in which case its date as seen
>> by Windows would be very different from the one seen by Cygwin).

  Are we talking about an application that mixes POSIX with win32-isms?  There
are very few guarantees if you do win32 stuff behind cygwin1.dll's back.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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