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Re: Testing automake on Cygwin 1.7


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Testing automake on Cygwin 1.7
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:34:52 -0700
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On 11/25/2011 12:00 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> 
>> Second is txinfo21, which stumbles because the directory timestamp
>> is not properly updated when a file changes inside the dir.

POSIX permits, but does not require, a directory's timestamp to change
just because a file in that directory was changed.  That is, any test
that relies on a directory's modification time always being reliable in
relation to the timestamps of files within that directory is inherently
non-portable.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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