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On Mar 16 18:24, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Under Cygwin 1.7.1-1, i have created the small program (see below),
> to print the modification time of the standard input. In the case where
> the stdin is a pipe (or the terminal), i expect the result to be more
> or less the current time. But the time printed in this case is
> invariably the modification time of /dev/null.
> 
> This has some impact in gzip and further, in tar.

What impact?  I don't think there is any standard which requires a non
filesystem based stream to have a current timestamp and a tool relying
on that might be broken.  All our streams which are not backed by a
filesystem w/ valid timestamps have an artificial timestamp of
2006-12-01 00:00:00.


Corinna

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