retitle 9513 cp -p fails to preserve permissions tags 9513 + moreinfo thanks
Paul Eggert wrote: > On 09/15/11 05:23, Charles ELSAESSER WebmailOrange wrote: >> cp -p file1 file2 >> >> does not preserve timestamp. > > That looks like a bug. > > Can you please try it with coreutils 8.13? That has some > fixes in this area; the version you're using (8.4) is a bit old. > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.13.tar.gz > > If you're still seeing the problem with 8.13, can you > please send your config.log (when building coreutils) > and the output of the shell command "strace cp -p file1 file2"? Hello Charles, The latest release is now coreutils-8.14. Would you please try to reproduce the problem using that version and send us the information that Paul requested?
