[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #628: "mtime" and "ctime": I don't think that word means what you think it means.

[tahoe-lafs]

#628: "mtime" and "ctime": I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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 Reporter:  zooko          |           Owner:       
     Type:  defect         |          Status:  new  
 Priority:  major          |       Milestone:  1.3.1
Component:  code-dirnodes  |         Version:  1.3.0
 Keywords:                 |   Launchpad_bug:       
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Changes (by zooko):

  * version:  1.2.0 => 1.3.0
  * milestone:  undecided => 1.3.1


Comment:

 This is the sort of thing that I'm motivated to fix and deploy sooner
 rather than later.  (I think my motivation is because people are starting
 to build on top of tahoe, and someone might start to rely on the naming
 and semantics of this metadata, so the sooner we change it the less
 backwards-compatibility problem we have.)  So I'm putting this into the
 "1.3.1" milestone.

 Of course, most of what is currently being put into the "1.3.1" milestone
 isn't actually going to get done in time for a 1.3.1 release, but at least
 we can see that it is the kind of change that *would* be appropriate for
 1.3.1 if someone were to do the work to fix it.  :-)

 Also, nobody should do this until Brian comments on this ticket about my
 proposal that we stop reading the ctime from the local filesystem, or that
 if we do read the ctime from the local filesystem, that we then switch on
 platform type, and if Windows then put the value we read into a metadata
 element named "create time", else put the value we read into a metadata
 element named "change time" ("change time" is, I think, the official
 expansion of the unix abbreviation "ctime").  Also that we store the
 "mtime" in an element named "modify time".

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