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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | [Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8375: closed (cp -a [-l] sometimes does not preserve timestamps of symlinks) |
Date: | Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:16:02 +0000 |
Your message dated Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:14:46 +0100 with message-id <address@hidden> and subject line Re: bug#8375: cp -a [-l] sometimes does not preserve timestamps of symlinks has caused the GNU bug report #8375, regarding cp -a [-l] sometimes does not preserve timestamps of symlinks to be marked as done. (If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact address@hidden) -- 8375: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8375 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact address@hidden with problems
--- Begin Message ---Subject: cp -a [-l] sometimes does not preserve timestamps of symlinks Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:01:12 +0200 User-agent: KMail/1.9.10 Hi, I see you fixed that already for for cp -a http://marc.info/?t=124897089600001&r=1&w=2 But it does not together with option -link: cd /tmp/ ln -s somewhere symlink touch -h -t "197001010000" symlink cp -a symlink symlink-a cp -al symlink symlink-al ls -l symlink* lrwxrwxrwx 1 rudi users 9 1970-01-01 00:00 symlink -> somewhere lrwxrwxrwx 1 rudi users 9 1970-01-01 00:00 symlink-a -> somewhere lrwxrwxrwx 1 rudi users 9 2011-03-29 13:44 symlink-al -> somewhere I'm using core utils coreutils 8.9 (opensuse 11.4). BTW with coreutils 7.1 and 6.9 it behaves the other way, -al is correct but -a not. So probably -al is broken since you fixed -a in 7.5. cu, Rudi
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#8375: cp -a [-l] sometimes does not preserve timestamps of symlinks Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:14:46 +0100 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 tags 8375 + notabug closing this cloned bug
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