Visible symlinks under Windows

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:20:18PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 22 21:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 22 11:08, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:03:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > If that's considered too dangerous, what about utilizing the least
> > > > significant bit in the ctime member?  Timestamps are defined in 100ns
> > > > intervals.  The LSB could be set to 0 or 1 deliberately.  None of the
> > > > Win32 timestamp related functions know about the ctime
> > > 
> > > No, don't think you can do that. Win32 apps will set a
> > > time and expect to read it back exactly. We can't play
> 
> Oh, erm... are you sure?  The OS can't make any assumptions about the
> timestamp granularity of the underlying file system, usually.  I don't
> think that's comparable with DOS where the OS exactly knew how
> timestamps are stored on the floppy down to every bit.

The problem is apps will set an exact timestamp, and
then re-read it. They expect it to be identical. They
don't resolve it, they just do a comparison.

Jeremy.