Comment by Brian_K_White
2 years ago
Did you confuse the file with it's containing directory?
The way you probably did in your now-deleted comment claiming that stat() updated atime?
Citation needed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.... doesn't warn of any such thing.
> Did you confuse the file with it's containing directory?
No.
> Citation needed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.... doesn't warn of any such thing.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...
OF_EXIST: Opens a file and then closes it.
It's literally open file ! Are you dense?
OpenFile() opens the file??? c'est incroyable!
OF_EXISTS is just a side effect of some actual operation. It's some related info you you get along the way. You would not use that as the way to only check the file. Holy cow. Please do continue trying to spread the wisom.
You are the one claiming that OpenFile(OF_EXIST) does not open the file. Scroll a bit above. My initial comment was:
> In fact, I imagine File.Exists()/OF_EXISTS also opens the file (then immediately closes it).
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