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Bug in os.stat-module??

Roland Mas mas at echo.fr
Thu Aug 3 03:19:57 EDT 2000 
THOMAS WEHOLT (2000-08-02 21:41:30 +0000) :

> Well, I thought the content of the date-properties of a file were
> kept when they were burned on the cd.

  They are.  From the ISO-9660 image you prepared before.

>  The creation date for instance, why should that change? The file
> isn't re-created when it's burned on the cd.

  Not when it's burnt on the CD, true.  The file is, however,
recreated on the filesystem you prepare before burning it, where you
merely copy it from where it was before.  If you want to change its
attributes, you should mount your ISO-9660 image read/write (insofar
as it is possible...  No clue about that), touch(1) your files to
change their access times (possibly reusing the ones from where your
files were copied from), and *then* burn the CD.

Roland.
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