DIRACGrid
Changing UID, GID or Mode for a lfn update its ModificationDate
The ModificationDate is the time displayed by the fcCLI command ls, so changing above fields will change the order of the listing of one directory.
I do like if fcCLI would resemble an UNIX system, with those UID,GID,Mode changes not modifying the timestamp showed in the listing.
Are there any objections by anyone to change this behaviour of the fcCLI? If not, Tino can implement it.
That sounds like a logical thing to do... although strictly speaking it doesn't prevent me sleeping at night ;-)
In the DB we have defined CreationDate and ModificationDate but no ChangeTime, so the easiest way would be to not update ModificationDate when changing UID, GID or Mode: This way the listing in the fc with the option '--timeorder' will not be affected.
As in the commit below: https://github.com/calancha/DIRAC/commit/b8995450e1134fd496a3fb6730869d33c52955a3
Hi, do not forget that there are several managers for files, not only this one. This modificationdate is a bit of a detail, but it is better if ll the managers behave the same way, so you would need to update the others as well
Thank you for pointing out this. I am going to update the other managers too.
Tino is not working on (ilc)dirac any longer, his branch is still there. https://github.com/calancha/DIRAC/tree/fc_uid_gid_mode He added also the modifications for other managers, I think. I can make a PR against v6r14 or rebase to v6r15?
This is not very trivial. I still have it on my list. I will try to do as soon as possible
