Re: Win2K/NTFS messes file creation time/date

[Gerald Carter <gcarter () valinux com>]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Acryl wrote:

> I accidently stumbled accross this error when I made a program of mine
> create 3 text files containing different debug output. My explorer is
> set to detailed view showing: Creation time/date, Last modification
> time/date and last access time/date. This way the bug I'll describe is
> easy to recognize so I'd recommend setting it to the same properties
> when trying to reproduce this.
>
> When I ran my program the very first time it created the 3 text files
> and set all of the 3 values properly as the should. After viewing the
> files I deleted them (Shift + Del) by hand and reran the program.
> Again the 3 files were created, but the Creation time/date was set
> wrong, namely it was set to the very first creation time ( before I
> deleted them by hand ). Any following runs of the program produced the
> same results.

This is known behavior.  There is a window during which the "sticky"
behavior will occur. In fact, certain MS apps (e.g. Word) rely upon this
behavior.









cheers, jerry
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