RE: Windows users of cons can manipulate times.

[Zachary Deretsky]

With a friend's help and perusing Microsoft help lore I found a way to
manipulate creation, access and modification times on Windows2000.
I attach the source and executable. I do not know of a unix way to do this.

Zach


> It doesn't have to be a direct way to manipulate the ctime value.  It
> can be as a side effect of some other change to the file/inode.  It
> doesn't have to be the same call on both *nix and Win32.  It doesn't
> have to be in Perl.  It could be a library/DLL call that gets compiled
> into a small utility routine from in-line code.
>
> I'd be happy to put in a change like this without a test for it.  But
> without a regression test for a subtle capability like this,
> guaranteed
> that it will get broken by some change some time within the next 3-5
> years or so.  If the test doesn't get written now, when the code goes
> in, the odds are slim to none that someone will go back and add it
> later.  So this is *the* chance to make sure that not only
> does this get
> added, but that it also doesn't break in the future.  I'd prefer that
> it not look like Cons ignores Windows users by not providing adequate
> regression tests for important Windows features...
>
>       --SK
>

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