Logical bug in NTFS - modification date is not set when stream is deleted

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It seems that somehow the interest in NTFS related questions is low.
But I have further observations that I would like to share with you.

In NTFS every file can have streams. Lets take the stream
"\005SummaryInformation" which is used to save the Summary Information
visible in the properties of a file.

If you add this stream by entering a comment in the properties the
modification date of the file changes. Every further modification to
the summary stream will change the modification date too.

But if you simply delete the associated stream with DeleteFile the
modification date is not changed to reflect this operation:

DeleteFileW(L"c:\\file.txt:\005SummaryInformation");

This is a logical NTFS bug for me.

Best regards,
Holger

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