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Re: A couple of questions
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Apr 08 2024 09:47 pm
> Re: A couple of questions
> By: Digital Man to apam on Mon Apr 08 2024 08:16 pm
>
> >> 1) How long do files stay "new"?
>
> DM> I don`t know about DD mods, but normally files are "new" when their
> DM> upload date/time is newer than the user`s last logoff time.
>
> I have my ddfilelister set up as a loadable module. When doing a new file
> scan, I`ve noticed my file lister is executed for each sub-board, and the
> sub-board code is passed in and the scan mode is passed in via argv. When
> doing a new file scan, I`ve been checking bbs.new_file_time. It seems I
> could set bbs.new_file_time to the current time when it`s done, but that
> would mean when ddfilelister is executed for the next file directory, it
> won`t list any new files because bbs.new_file_time would have been set to
> the current date/time.
>
> So, I don`t know if it should be ddfilelister`s responsibility to update
> bbs.new_file_time or not?
No, it is not your module`s responsibility to update bbs.new_file_time.
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