On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:20:56PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:38:32AM -0500, Dan Rench wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Martin Pool wrote:
> >
> > > There's no code in rsync to do this at the moment as far as I can see.
> > > Perhaps it should be there?
> >
> > I posted a patch that preserves atimes to this list 2 weeks ago
> > and got no response:
> >
> > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-August/002595.html
>
> I'm sorry I didn't reply to your post 2 weeks ago. I saved it intending
> to get back to it and didn't make it.
>
> Someone posted a similar patch back in February and Tridge and I were both
> pretty opposed to it. See the thread beginning at
>
> http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-February/001787.html
It seems pertinent to ask if anyone knows whether changing the ctime
rather than the atime will make the mail agents any happier about the
file being unmodified? There's no point implementing it if it won't
solve the problem.
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