[21520] in bugtraq
Re: Win2K/NTFS messes file creation time/date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerald Carter)
Mon Jul 16 00:56:40 2001
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:12:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gerald Carter <gcarter@valinux.com>
To: Acryl <abusement2@gmx.net>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Acryl wrote:
> I accidently stumbled accross this error when I made a program of mine
> create 3 text files containing different debug output. My explorer is
> set to detailed view showing: Creation time/date, Last modification
> time/date and last access time/date. This way the bug I'll describe is
> easy to recognize so I'd recommend setting it to the same properties
> when trying to reproduce this.
>
> When I ran my program the very first time it created the 3 text files
> and set all of the 3 values properly as the should. After viewing the
> files I deleted them (Shift + Del) by hand and reran the program.
> Again the 3 files were created, but the Creation time/date was set
> wrong, namely it was set to the very first creation time ( before I
> deleted them by hand ). Any following runs of the program produced the
> same results.
This is known behavior. There is a window during which the "sticky"
behavior will occur. In fact, certain MS apps (e.g. Word) rely upon this
behavior.
cheers, jerry
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