Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.24.161-1204d

[Assaf Gordon]

On 01/18/2016 03:38 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> On 01/18/2016 03:31 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > On 01/18/2016 02:27 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > On 18/01/16 18:18, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > > >     FAIL: tests/cp/preserve-slink-time
> > >
> > > -2016-01-18 12:21:28.294123000 -0500
> > > +2016-01-18 12:21:28.296528000 -0500
> > >
> > > cp -Pp didn't seem to preserve the timestamp on GPFS.
>
> This might be some weird bug in GPFS, not in CP.
>
> If I add a delay between the "ln -s" and "cp", then everything is fine.

previous example was needlessly complicated.

Here's a more succinct example:
===
$ for i in {1..5} ; do  \
    ln -s nosuch$i d$i ; \
    cp -Pp d$i d$i-without-sleep ; \
    sleep 1 ;  \
    cp -Pp d$i d$i-sleep ; \
  done ; \
  stat --format=%y,%n d*

2016-01-18 15:54:03.362745000 -0500,d1
2016-01-18 15:54:03.362745000 -0500,d1-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:03.364136000 -0500,d1-without-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:04.368773000 -0500,d2
2016-01-18 15:54:04.368773000 -0500,d2-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:04.370309000 -0500,d2-without-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:05.374139000 -0500,d3
2016-01-18 15:54:05.374139000 -0500,d3-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:05.375543000 -0500,d3-without-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:06.379171000 -0500,d4
2016-01-18 15:54:06.379171000 -0500,d4-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:06.381534000 -0500,d4-without-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:07.384989000 -0500,d5
2016-01-18 15:54:07.384989000 -0500,d5-sleep
2016-01-18 15:54:07.386153000 -0500,d5-without-sleep
===

This is reproducible regardless of cp's version.

regards,
 - assaf