Carsten Kunze wrote: > Hello, > > "cp -p" seems to not preserve the modification time of symlinks. This is not > mentioned in the man page. Other systems I tested (others BSDs and Linux) do > preserve the mtime of symlinks with e.g. "cp -a". The OpenBSD kernel also > does support to set it with e.g. utimensat(2). > > Is this intented? If not--is it an known issue?
Probably not intended. Just an artifact left over from the era before you could set times on symlinks. (not likely that many people care, either.)
