file corruption

[devzero at web.de]

>It seems that Microsoft knows how to change a file without altering 
>the modification time.

yes, they do. 
see https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601

but it`s not too difficult. 

the issue is, that you don`t expect a program actively changing a files contents when just opening it for reading/viewing.

regards
roland



>List:       rsync
>Subject:    Re: file corruption
>From:       joop g <jjge () xs4all ! nl>
>Date:       2013-03-09 10:33:54
>Message-ID: 3286855.GThHFMr6je () n2k6
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>You said, the diff concerned just one byte, right?
>Were the corrupted files all Microsoft Office files? I have seen this behaviour 
>once, and then it turned out to be the originals that had been changed in the 
>meantime. It seems that Microsoft knows how to change a file without altering 
>the modification time.