patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Feb 9 08:54:00 GMT 2005


On Feb  8 13:49, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:10:29AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Have a look into path.cc, fs_info::update ().  Test the filesystem
> > name in fs_info::update and add a flag to fs_info which tells us that
> > FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES is supported (which is valid for NTFS and FAT,
> > btw.).
> 
> How should the flag default for things other than NTFS, HPFS, and FAT?

I'm all for negative confinement.  FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES unless proved
otherwise.


Corinna

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