Branko Čibej wrote:
>Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
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>>sussman@apache.org writes:
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>>>sussman 2003/07/07 15:44:11
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> New apr_file_mtime_set() API, implemented in unix and win32.
>>> Patches from Branko Cibej (brane) and Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>So can this API be renamed to apr_path_mtime_set()? Can it be made to
>>work on directories as well as files? Certainly the unix utime()
>>implementation works on any kind of inode. How about brane's win32
>>implementation?
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>I think the Win32 bit won't work on directories without changes,
>although I think it can be changed so that it does. The Unix
>implementation probably will work on dirs unchanged.
>
>I have no objection to changing the funciton name (or at least the docs)
>and teach it to work on both files and dirs.
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Oh, by the way: lying about the modification time of a directory is
generally not a good idea, and it's not something "make" is interested
in. Let's think carefully about what we want to achieve here before
starting to change directory mtimes.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Wed Jul 9 00:38:32 2003