On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Acryl wrote: > I accidently stumbled accross this error when I made a program of mine > create 3 text files containing different debug output. My explorer is > set to detailed view showing: Creation time/date, Last modification > time/date and last access time/date. This way the bug I'll describe is > easy to recognize so I'd recommend setting it to the same properties > when trying to reproduce this. > > When I ran my program the very first time it created the 3 text files > and set all of the 3 values properly as the should. After viewing the > files I deleted them (Shift + Del) by hand and reran the program. > Again the 3 files were created, but the Creation time/date was set > wrong, namely it was set to the very first creation time ( before I > deleted them by hand ). Any following runs of the program produced the > same results. This is known behavior. There is a window during which the "sticky" behavior will occur. In fact, certain MS apps (e.g. Word) rely upon this behavior. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.valinux.com/ VA Linux Systems gcarterat_private http://www.samba.org/ SAMBA Team jerryat_private http://www.plainjoe.org/ jerryat_private --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
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