Redirecting output from running proc doesn't modify the "last modified time" field for target file

[ajshower]

>IMHO, this is a very dubious "feature" to depend upon.  If you want to
>know if the file has changed, why not check its length instead?

I have switched to using the length instead but I was interested in what
people thought of the issue.

I'm having trouble reproducing this using just Cygwin so I'm not presenting
the problem accurately.  My process is to call  Runtime.getRuntime.exec()
within a java process which opens cygwin/bin/bash.exe and then runs the
redirection command from within the bash.  From the same java process that
called exec(), I'm trying to monitor the last modified time based on what's
going on in the previously called bash.exe.  That does sound pretty
convoluted.  I guess it's some kind of scope problem, but checking length()
is working, so it's all moot anyway.

I'll close this thread.

-Alex
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