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Thread: finfo->ctime on Win32




finfo->ctime on Win32
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2006-06-06 13:31:11
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Steve Hay wrote:

> Steve Hay wrote:
>> Randy Kobes wrote:
>>> Thanks very much for the explanation, Steve -
that makes
>>> sense. So as was mentioned earlier, this
problem probably
>>> won't be encountered by the majority of Win32
users,
>>> who will be unpacking a CPAN distribution. It
is
>>> annoying for svn users though who may encounter
this
>>> problem - would the following patch be OK,
which uses
>>> the generated httpd.conf as the file?
>> 
>> The patch works OK for me (and, as you say, we
don't need the utime() 
>> call any more either.)
>
> Randy, I see that you applied your patch to change the
file used in the 
> finfo tests, but you didn't remove the utime() call. 
Was there any 
> particular reason why not, or just an oversight?
>
> I can't see any point to keeping it now: the
httpd.conf file should be 
> up-to-date (i.e. in the same DST season), and if it
isn't then the 
> utime() call will only fix up the mtime, not the ctime,
which is 
> probably more confusing than helpful.
>
> With the attached patch, I currently have all tests
successful.

Hi Steve,
    That was an oversight - you're right that leaving it in
there is confusing. Thanks for the patch - this was
committed as revision 412118.

-- 
best regards,
Randy

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