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| author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2018-11-26 10:22:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2018-11-26 10:22:42 +0200 |
| commit | b55143ecaa986aa3ba93dc6a078ed7d9cf495b1c (patch) | |
| tree | 6936c4082760fc73549dd5a569ce9eb59fc4aa39 | |
| parent | 210d9cacde638449af430fad0bf245c04c123ebf (diff) | |
Add note on "filesystem time" on Windows
| -rw-r--r-- | libbutl/filesystem.cxx | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libbutl/filesystem.cxx b/libbutl/filesystem.cxx index 0729964..e87669d 100644 --- a/libbutl/filesystem.cxx +++ b/libbutl/filesystem.cxx @@ -196,8 +196,15 @@ namespace butl { if (file_exists (p)) { + // Note that on Windows there are two times: the precise time (which is + // what we get with system_clock::now()) and what we will call the + // "filesystem time", which can lag the precise time by as much as a + // couple of milliseconds. To get the filesystem time use + // GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(). This is just a heads-up in case we decide + // to change this code at some point. + // #ifndef _WIN32 - if (utime (p.string ().c_str (), nullptr) == -1) + if (utime (p.string ().c_str (), nullptr) == -1) #else if (_utime (p.string ().c_str (), nullptr) == -1) #endif |