Cannot set time on read-only file (Win2k)

Fri May 4 06:16:00 GMT 2001

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:44:58PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> I noticed this problem when mirroring off Unix site - if file is read-only,
> time cannot be set. This of course confuses mirror a bit (why I had to mirror
> under Cygwin is another sad story :-)
>> mw1g017@MW1G17C% ll ld-linux.so.2
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 mw1g017 ITS 87036 Apr 18 10:19 ld-linux.so.2*
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% touch ld-linux.so.2
> touch: ld-linux.so.2: Permission denied
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% chmod u+w ld-linux.so.2
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% touch ld-linux.so.2
>> This is somewhat unexpected and does not correspond to Unix. Is it possible to
> change it or is it Windows restriction?

It's a Windows restriction. Setting the file time requires opening
the file for writing.
Corinna
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