Re: How to effectively modify the last access time of a file

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From: Ed Mulroy
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:13

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You are probably correct in this but there is one other thing he might try. 
I've been doing since the DOS days - do a flush on the file immediately 
prior to the time set and close.  For Win32 it goes something like this:

    FlushFileBuffers(hFile);
    SetFileTime(--arg list---);
    CloseHandle(hFile);

.  Ed

> Mark Jacobs wrote in message
> news:4614eacb@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> When I use your code, I the last access time is adjusted correctly. Are 
>> you sure you don't open the file elsewhere?
>
> No, he means that the CloseHandle call sets the last access time to when 
> the CloseHandle happened! I don't see a way round this! Certainly, the 
> other 2 work fine (last modified and last created), but last access 
> includes the access required to set the last access date and time - a bit 
> of a Catch 22 situation!

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