modtime not preserved on copying onto samba share - got the reason

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

this is probably why NT caches file times for approx 30 seconds.  you can
delete a file and recreate it within 30 seconds and it will retain the
(create, i think) time of the previous file.

this was discussed on ntbugtraq a couple of months ago.

 On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> O.K. I got it. The sequence is as following:
> 
> NT create & X
> SMBwrite - wites 0 bytes *at the end of file* (creating empty file)
> transact2 set file info -
> transact2 set file info - one of them (dunno) correctly sets file times
> SMBwrite - writes the rest of file, thus resetting all file times :((
> 
> nice shot
> 
> looks, call_trans2setfilepathinfo() should just remeber passed a/mtimes.And
> whatever is called, when write is complete, should set them (SMBclose?)
> 
> looking forward for a patch :))
> 
> /andrej
> 
> 

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