modification time of standard input is wrong

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sun Mar 28 19:20:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:43:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Right.  And, as far as I can see, there is no mechanism within gzip to
>set the time to something special if stdin is not a regular file.  It
>always seems to use the time that it gets from fstat().  On linux that
>apparently is today's date.
>
>I guess if we want to be compatible we should change this but it isn't
>something for 1.7.2.  I'll put it on my todo list.

I've made this change.  It is in today's snapshot at:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html

cgf

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