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Re: File timestamp not updated by writes with current snapshot?


Larry,

Isn't the filesystem timestamp resolution much higher in NTFS compared to 
the FAT family?

Randy


At 13:33 2001-07-13, you wrote:
>At 04:05 PM 7/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> >I updated my winsup sources from the CVS repository yesterday and
> >built cygwin1.dll.  Using the new cygwin1.dll, I'm seeing something
> >I've never seen before, so I suspect it is somehow related to the DLL,
> >which is why I'm reporting it here.  Basically, a file's timestamp
> >isn't being updated, despite the fact that data is being added to the
> >end of it, until after it's closed.  Observe:
> >
> >$ (echo foo; ls -l foo 1>&2; sleep 60; echo foo; ls -l foo 1>&2) > foo
> >-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        4 Jul 13 16:00 foo
> >-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        8 Jul 13 16:00 foo
> >$ ls -l foo
> >-rwxr-xr-x   1 curlbot  Administ        8 Jul 13 16:01 foo
> >$
> >
> >The second ls output line above should say 16:01 but doesn't.
> >
> >Is this behavior known?  Is it intentional?
>
>
>Windows has trouble with times/date resolution.  In that respect, this is 
>known.  What DLL did you update from?  I see it with 1.3.2 and 1.1.8.
>
>
>Larry Hall


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