Wacky "Modified:" dates on checked out files.

[John Daniel Doucette]

Hi,

We have a CVS repository setup up on a Novell file server.  We access it 
using "cvs -d :local:h:/.../Repository"  convention.  We are using WinCVS 
1.2.  Sometimes when files are checked out, they get a modified date that 
appears to be crappy from the point of view of a Win2000 PC.  Ie. I work on 
a Win98SE box, and if I check out a module and "make" it, everything works 
fine.  SOMETIMES, if you are on a Win2000 machine, and checkout a module, 
and run make, make loops endlessly!  If you look at the file that make is 
looping on from within explorer, the Creation date has the time that the 
file was checked out, but the Modified time is 0, or 2044, or 1964, or some 
other weird number.  Make doesn't seem to appreciate this!  On both PCs the 
module is being checked out into a working directory that is also a shared 
Novell working drive.  After the Win2000 user checks out the module and 
cannot run make, I, the Win98SE user, can run make just fine in that same 
directory.  And files that the Win2000 explorer sees as having screwy dates 
appear fine when I look at them!  I.e. the modified date is the same as the 
last date stored inside the ,v file in the repository.  Has anyone seen 
this before?  Is this  Novell, Win2000, or WinCVS problem?

Thanks.

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