Re: copy-file broken

[Andre Spiegel]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I cannot reproduce this with today's CVS HEAD on fencepost.gnu.org
> which claims to be
> 
>   Linux fencepost 2.4.20-19.9smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 15 17:04:18 EDT 2003 i686 
> unknown
> 
> is it possible that this is some library bug?  Emacs calls `utimes'
> to set the file's times (see sysdep.c:set_file_times).

I'm seeing the error with today's HEAD, libc6 2.3.2-2 (debian package),
doing

  (copy-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs") 
             (expand-file-name "~/new") nil 'keep-time)

The file ~/new has date 1970-01-01 after this.

libc6 on fencepost is 2.2.5-11.5, so this might indeed be the reason.

Simon, could you tell us which version of the C library you've been
using?