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Re: patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)
On Feb 7 14:37, Mark Paulus wrote:
> So, what it really seems to boil down to is
> for those filesystems that support doing timestamp
> updating via FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES (NTFS systems)
> we should use FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES, and for those that
> don't (HPFS, etc), they should use GENERIC_WRITE?
Yes. I'm wondering though, if that's the filesystem or OS/2 which
choke on FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES.
> Unfortunately, during my brief perusal of MSDN, I didn't see
> an easy way to determine the file system type.
Have a look into path.cc, fs_info::update (). Test the filesystem
name in fs_info::update and add a flag to fs_info which tells us that
FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES is supported (which is valid for NTFS and FAT,
btw.).
Corinna
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