>IMHO, this is a very dubious "feature" to depend upon. If you want to
>know if the file has changed, why not check its length instead?
I have switched to using the length instead but I was interested in what
people thought of the issue.
I'm having trouble reproducing this using just Cygwin so
I've got a bash script running in Cygwin whose output has been redirected to
another file. MS-DOS exhibits this same behavior if I run the bash script
as a batch job.
bash.exe &> log.txt
Adding content to log.txt through redirection does not change log.txt's last
modified time while bash.ex
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