Subject: Re: Modification Dates in netatalk and samba
From: Jan Dockx (Jan.Dockx@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 04:23:26 EDT
Thanks.
Seems to me netatalk is the one at fault, not samba. When serving
files, netatalk should be more intelligent. It should strip the entry
descriptor 8 you talk about from the resource, and transmit the file
system time stamps instead.
Otherwise file changes through samba would present the correct time
stamps on a Mac, but not file changes done from unix.
High time I got some time to program some things for netatalk :~$.
So, that mystery is solved. The other problem seems to be purely
samba, so this is probably not the best mailing list to pursue it
further.
At 17:57 -0400 10/10/2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >
>> Then we thought that the modification date for Mac's might come from
>> the resource-fork-files in the .AppleDouble folder. But this didn't
>> fit the bill either.
>>
>
>Yes, it does. The files sitting in the .AppleDouble directories
>have timestamp
>information embedded in them. Looking at my AppleDouble documentation, it is
>entry descriptor 8.
>
>Touching these files will not change the timestamp info in the file,
>and I know
>of no tool that will do (though one could be cooked up easily enough).
>
>I guess Samba's netatalk integration doesn't take this into account. Bummer.
>
>Tom
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