-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ray Liere on 1/31/2008 7:53 PM: | Consider the following use of cp -p to create an identical copy (identical | in content and in timestamps, etc.): | | # echo xxx > jnk | # ls --full-time jnk | -rw------- 1 root root 4 2008-01-31 18:40:27.879358240 -0800 jnk | # cp -p jnk jnkcopy | # ls --full-time jnk* | -rw------- 1 root root 4 2008-01-31 18:40:27.879358240 -0800 jnk | -rw------- 1 root root 4 2008-01-31 18:40:27.879358000 -0800 jnkcopy
Thanks for the report. However... | # ls --version | ls (coreutils) 5.2.1 That release is VERY old, and many bug-fixes have been made in the meantime. The latest stable version is 6.10. Furthermore, coreutils suffers from the fact that until very recently, there has been no standardized way of setting nanosecond file resolutions. The next version of POSIX is adding futimensat, but most OS's have not implemented it yet. ~ Therefore, if the OS provides no method for finer granularity, coreutils has no choice but to truncate the timestamp, so this is likely not a bug in cp. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHootd84KuGfSFAYARAs25AKDDlmWWJerDxjK60Wn7p/z8bJcgoQCeKTGq 3LxLdrH6SMR++hYSC6DGqJE= =DeRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
