Chuck,

On 3/3/15 1:20 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] 
>> Subject: Re: svn commit: r1663715 - in 
>> /tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/startup: 
>> ExpandWar.java HostConfig.java LocalStrings.properties
> 
>> A bigger issue is anything writing files into the docBase (e.g. some people 
>> write 
>> logs here despite it being a bad idea) is going to change the last modified 
>> time 
>> of the directory. As much as I like the simplicity of this approach, I think 
>> an 
>> alternative is required.
> 
> As Konstantin noted, the timestamp on a directory is rather ephemeral, 
> especially on Windows or NAS boxes.
> 
> Can you simply record the deployment occurrence by writing a file with some 
> appropriately Tomcat-specific name into the chosen deployment directory and 
> set the timestamp on that file to match the .war?

Like touching the timestamp of the context.xml file? Or maybe
META-INF/context.xml.stamp or whatever.

-chris

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