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Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/cygwin/times.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/times.cc | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/times.cc b/winsup/cygwin/times.cc index 7ed9e5ec2..e69501225 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/times.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/times.cc @@ -462,8 +462,15 @@ utimes (const char *path, const struct timeval *tvp) /* MSDN suggests using FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS for accessing the times of directories. */ /* Note: It's not documented in MSDN that FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES is - sufficient to change the timestamps... */ - HANDLE h = CreateFile (win32, FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES, + sufficient to change the timestamps, but it is for NTFS and FAT, + local or remote, NT and 9x. Unfortunately it's not sufficient + for a remote HPFS. Looking for a way to decide whether we + should use FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES or GENERIC_WRITE, we're now + using the has_acls () attribute. The assumption is, that file + systems not supporting ACLs don't have a way to distinguish + between GENERIC_WRITE and FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES anyway. */ + HANDLE h = CreateFile (win32, win32.has_acls () ? FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES + : GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, &sec_none_nih, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL | FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, |