[Brian_K_White]

It's literally open file ! Are you dense?

OpenFile() opens the file??? c'est incroyable!

OF_EXISTS is just a side effect of some actual operation. It's some related info you you get along the way. You would not use that as the way to only check the file. Holy cow. Please do continue trying to spread the wisom.

[AshamedCaptain]

You are the one claiming that OpenFile(OF_EXIST) does not open the file. Scroll a bit above. My initial comment was:

> In fact, I imagine File.Exists()/OF_EXISTS also opens the file (then immediately closes it).

[Brian_K_White]

"You are the one claiming that OpenFile(OF_EXIST) does not open the file."

I never said any such thing.

Yet another trivially verified false statement. Fits the pattern.

[AshamedCaptain]

Hey, I am also a fan of the argument clinic sketch from Monty Python. Let me try to jump in:

If you didn't say any such thing, then why did you bother countering my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42107195 ? Aha! Gotcha!

[Brian_K_White]

What gotcha?

I never said, either explicitly nor implicitly, that File.Exists() modifies access time.

There is nothing there in that comment nor it's parent.

OF_EXISTS is not a thing by itself. It does not "open a file and then close it" which is a ridiculous and incorrect thing you DID actually say. OF_EXISTS is just a bitmask flag that can be returned by several functions, including ones that open files.

You have said a continuos string of incorrect things and employed invalid logic this whole time, and this yet again fits.

correction: you said opens a file and closes it about OF_EXIST the bitmask flag to tell OpenFile() how you want to open it. Slightly less ridiculous, yet still not a thing that opens a file, OpenFile() opens the file.