From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15194 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2011 20:23:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 15184 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Dec 2011 20:23:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from csmail.cs.umass.edu (HELO csmail.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:22:40 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.8] (c-71-192-247-69.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [71.192.247.69]) by csmail.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 29D652000014D85C0F; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:22:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4ED93389.7070209@cs.umass.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:23:00 -0000 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Redirecting output from running proc doesn't modify the "last modified time" field for target file References: <32903475.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 In my experience such metadata tends to be updated when the file is closed, but not necessarily before that time. This may be different from Unix, but (as mentioned) is probably not something cygwin can "fix". Best wishes -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple