From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14993 invoked by alias); 23 May 2016 08:40:28 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 14982 invoked by uid 89); 23 May 2016 08:40:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:486, office, Office X-HELO: mail-wm0-f52.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f52.google.com) (74.125.82.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 23 May 2016 08:40:25 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id n129so65646292wmn.1 for ; Mon, 23 May 2016 01:40:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to; bh=XsSwH7lNwrvKNNG8K8sY9siCpeTd+51lDEZlpCM2+LE=; b=YbTlASOfvXoA7c2g4gHg0fQjM6XX3CwEZfsjwNxuzHYgs/DN7RNRV3pQlWXJYfQu3t 94jHS4za+ajI1qW8kbz4Pqw7prniFI1fc1/Kg1iJbOWJv9ZZo1AfNmRb9xqYe+jQ9z5I Rk+D77HQHdYKITg2fDr9fkJp6By/OZ2IungTnXcfE7xZ1MAaGxvFym11EMaone+NTTN7 TfZYwV1J4GuYgD49z7+ox92WjrrU6iqpDHaSrdal3K9qI+nA90iMcula/bsX6yawmBha sZv4tdCzdhRHzru6cziofCKkQYrtXj9A9sxczuQ008aZb2GXy9mcbHIyLBxgp2UCgIod xdNQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FXoOXjncsK46nLmLXIZM5nUFEXpP37LOvM7TMl9XfLUaU1lc1TH0MXjlfWF8jmPpNE112ndANvaoMRKrQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.142.240 with SMTP id rz16mr15030593wjb.126.1463992822940; Mon, 23 May 2016 01:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.56.134 with HTTP; Mon, 23 May 2016 01:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 08:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?tar_incremental_backups_and_ctime=E2=80=8F_problem?= From: x y To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00259.txt.bz2 Hello, The MS Office applications are changing the ctime value of .doc and .xls files even if they are not modified. Opening and closing an office file without modifying the content is changing ctime and the unmodified document is included in the incremental tar archive. Could it be possible to use the mtime value instead of ctime to avoid the the reappearance of the unchanged files in the incremental archive? Test OS : Windows 7 Sp1 -- 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