Win32 _stat and _utime

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 07:05:48PM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
> In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
> 
> <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ea5eb3d3ca6e00870adfc543a2364826e1c0f77e?hp=10beeb31a54ccb7c367cf6c53bbacc7ca2f4b2ba>
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> - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> commit ea5eb3d3ca6e00870adfc543a2364826e1c0f77e
> Author: Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>
> Date:   Mon Nov 25 18:05:33 2013 +0000
> 
>     List another VC++ 2013 test failure
>     
>     The first two happened when in BST but don't happen now, back in GMT; but
>     lib/File/Copy.t now fails instead!
>     
>     This is all due to _utime() being broken in VC++ 2013's CRT. Microsoft have
>     acknowledged there is a regression from previous versions of the CRT in a
>     support ticket that I logged with them, and will publish a Knowledge Base
>     article about it in due course.
>     
>     (Users can workaround it by using the Win32::UTCFileTime module on CPAN,
>     which exists to fix other (long-standing) issues with _stat() and _utime(),
>     but also fixes this new breakage too.)

Does this long standing issue have a ticket number?

I know about 45331, and while trying to fix it I found the
inconsistency between the times reported by _stat and
GetFileInformationByHandle().

I wonder if we should be fixing it in perl rather than farming out the
bug fix to Win32::UTCFileTime (which I didn't know about until seeing
this commit.)

Tony

• Win32 _stat and _utime by Tony Cook
• Re: Win32 _stat and _utime by Steve Hay