On 2007-07-10 09:25:55 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:57:42AM CEST: > > I agree concerning the problems I've reported. But concerning the > > "cp -p", is the "-p" useful or just cosmetic? > > It's useful, as it resembles the functionality it emulates more > closely: with symlinked files, 'make' considers the time stamp of > the linked-to file.
But if this timestamp is important to preserve, then there may be problems on file systems where the timestamp cannot be preserved. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
