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RE: cygdrive uses incorrect date
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 07:59:22 +0100
- Subject: RE: cygdrive uses incorrect date
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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