Please test 2005-Apr-12 snapshot

[Karl M]

Hi All...

It looks good on 98  and 2k. cvs and ssh were used on both machines with no 
problems.

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: Corinna VinschenSubject: Please test 2005-Apr-12 snapshot
>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:33:03 +0200
>
>I'd like to ask people to test the latest snapshot as of today.  It 
>contains
>two patches, one of them with some impact on how timestamps are used.
>
>The first patch is less important, it should just stop floppy access when
>sync is called on Win2K boxes.
>
>The second patch is this:
>
>In 1.5.13 and 1.5.14 we introduced touching the CreationTime stamp in
>a way, which simulates a POSIX ctime using the CreationTime stamp.
>This resulted in some complaints, the most important one that native
>Windows applications might misbehave because of strange CreationTimes.
>
>The snapshot now contains a patch which changes the ctime handling as
>follows:
>
>- Windows NT supports a fourth timestamp which is inaccessible from the
>   Win32 API.  The NTFS filesystem actually implements it.  It behaves
>   as a ctime in a POSIX-like fashion.  Cygwin's st_ctime stat member now
>   contains this ChangeTime, if it's available.
>
>- Any other file system, which doesn't support the ChangeTime stamp
>   uses the LastWriteTime stamp as ctime.  This comes relatively close
>   to the way ctime behaves in POSIX.
>
>- The CreationTime stamp is neither read nor changed programatically by
>   Cygwin now.  This should solve the aforementioned problems for native
>   Win32 applications.
>
>Please download from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ and test.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Corinna
>
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