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Re: new w/20050114 snapshot: chmod updates ctime


On Jan 16 09:56, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:42:11PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:35:09AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > >With the 20050114 snapshot, chmod is updating a file's ctime.  This
> > >didn't happen with the 20050111 snapshot.
> > 
> > Yes, AFAIK, this is correct behavior, fixed, as mentioned here:
> > 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00690.html
> > 
> > and conformant with this:
> > 
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/chmod.html
> 
> Ah, thanks; Corinna, good job noticing chmod needed doing too.

Thanks.  Actually I changed that in the acl/facl call, too.  These
calls are not mentioned in SUSv3, but it seems logical to behave
equivalent in this case.


Corinna

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