Re: [Libmtp-discuss] send object/get object property list

[Philip L. <ph...@ov...>]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:54:52 +0000
Alistair Buxton <a.j...@gm...> wrote:

> On 11 December 2017 at 02:26, Philip Langdale <ph...@ov...>
> wrote:
> 
> > They are not part of the core spec, so would not be documented
> > there. I never found any documentation for them - I used:
> >
> > https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs
> >
> > as my reference as this was written by a Googler who understood how
> > the extensions worked.
> >
> > --phil  
> 
> Okay, thanks.
> 
> I've implemented everything now and it all seems to work, but I'm
> hitting timestamp problems.
> 
> Basically when I save a text file from my editor it checks the
> timestamp after writing, but gvfs does not update the timestamp until
> the file is closed. This causes the editor to produce spurious "file
> externally modified" warnings.
> 
> Is this expected behaviour? Should the editor deal with it?
> 
> This is more of a gvfs question, is there a more appropriate mailing
> list for that?
> 

The modified time of the file is set on the device side (in this case,
your code). gvfs does not directly modify any file attributes like the
modification time - that's the device's responsibility.

--phil