On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote:
> Not speaking about access date, which
> shouldn't be set in DOS as it would mean unexpected writes.
I don't understand why access dates are different in DOS than other OSes.
If the volume is r/o you can't change the access date, sure.
I wonder though about this in RBIL:
--------D-216C00-----------------------------
INT 21 - DOS 4.0+ - EXTENDED OPEN/CREATE
AX = 6C00h
BL = open mode as in AL for normal open (see also AH=3Dh)
bit 7: inheritance
bits 4-6: sharing mode
bit 3 reserved
bits 0-2: access mode
100 read-only, do not modify file's last-access time (DOS 7.0)
why would a 100 flag be needed if the last-access time would never be
modified?
> In summary, I
> didn't do this change only to be reverted back because Bart doesn't like
> it. Don't apply it to his stable branch, but *leave* it in our unstable,
> please.
I don't care about the branch it's in really. Neither of the two branches
are mine -- but I have write access to both. So I could have simply
reverted your change but decided to be a little more polite and tell you
why I don't agree.
I just want to say that, if I did not like it myself then I would never
have implemented it in the first place... The argumentation given by you
was given in the CVS commit -- which I don't think is valid but I
understand why in some cases you may not want to fiddle with these times
(hence the config.sys idea). Then you have another one (it was broken
anyway) by email which I can disprove.
Or do I gather from you that you absolutely *need* a kernel that is <40k
(exactly why is a mystery to me, but it looks like a ROM where everything
but exactly 39.5K is taken up by something else) and that one component
now uses one extra sector so you desperately need to shave off another
sector?
Bart
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