Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:11:40AM -0600, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:22:17PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0600, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > > But, this only solves it for NTFS with ntsec set.  What about FAT?  I
> > >
> > > It doesn't happen on FAT. It could happen on NTFS with files
> > > created by native Windows apps and ntsec OFF as well, though.
> > 
> > ... and that couldn't be handled as long as ntsec is off. Which
> > is a good reason to change automake. They simply can't expect
> > that all file systems support their coding style. For that reason
> > automake has to respect file system differences, IMO.
> > 
> 
> Yes I agree.  However, perhaps the change needs to happen with the touch
> code instead of Cygwin?

It's not touch but `cp -p' (and `mv', perhaps) which raises that
problem. Perhaps it's possible to change both...

Anyway, I will check in something this week (I hope) which makes
utimes() behaving more correctly here.

Corinna

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