Subj : A couple of questions
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Apr 09 2024 10:53:16

  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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