From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-06-15T02:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Rakefile under Cygwin: permission denied

nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:
> Hi,
> 
> At Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:32:13 +0900,
> Jim Menard wrote in [ruby-talk:103498]:
> > Actually, what's failing is deep inside rake. Its "timestamp" method calls
> > 
> > 	File.new(name.to_s).mtime
> 
> Why it's not
>   File.mtime(name)
> or
>   File.open(name){|f| f.mtime}
> ?

I don't know why. File.mtime(name.to_s) works.

I've CC'd rake-devel. Consider this a change request: Please change the
implementation of timestamp to be

	File.mtime(name.to_s)

because under XP, the current implementation

	File.new(name.to_s).mtime

fails if name already exists due to a "ERRNO::EACCESS: Permission denied"
error.

Jim
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