On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:49:23PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 03:26:41PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > > The former. It does what I said, and (at least when the destination > > is local and you do not specify an alternative program to use) does > > *not* do what you said, though I admit, it seems like it ought to, or > > that there should be two separate flags that control access time > > preservation for each source and destination files. If you don't > > believe me, try it... then run stat on all the files you copied. > > I did. > > > Er, surely copying a file won't change the modification time of the > copied file anyway will it?
No, it does not change the modification time. However it does change the *access time*, which mutt compares to the modification time to determine if the mailbox contains new mail. It uses this shortcut instead of parsing the file to determine if a mailbox contains new mail, because it's much faster and reasonably (but not completely) reliable. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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