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Subject: A couple of questions
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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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