But the second bug reported, related to lfs.touch on FAT systems,
turned out to be more bizarre than expected. When executing
local testdate = os.time({ year = 2007, day = 10, month = 2})
assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, testdate))
local new_att = assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile))
assert (new_att.access == testdate, "could not set access time")
on a FAT 12 system, it fails on the assert with a "could not set
access time" error.
Apparently FAT 12 and FAT32 are not very easy on the time handling side
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Directory_table)
and it seems that Python has passed by problems like that (tks
Mascarenhas):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2004-November/025966.html
Does anyone know what may be happening or how to get over this?
Mentions to "not using Windows" may be spared please. :o)
