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Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-3
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/19/2005 11:11 AM:
>>utimes(dest,...); // at this point, timestamp is correct
>>fchmod(dest_desc,...);
>>close(dest_desc); // oops, timestamp changed
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>
> Apparently NT overwrites the mtime timestamp on close, as long as write
> buffers are not written to disk at that time. Chris had an idea how to
> work around that in Cygwin so that it should work in most cases now.
> Please try the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Slick trick of searching for an open write descriptor visiting the same
file. But it begs the question - why not go one step further and
create/export futimes(), so that the application can inform cygwin which
descriptor to use, bypassing the search?
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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