[adding bug-gnulib]
On 03/31/2011 08:11 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
So probably -al is broken since you fixed -a in 7.5.
Hmm it looks now like we're creating symlinks (with wrong timestamps),
but in fact we should be creating hardlinks to symlinks.
This seems to have been changed with:
On 31/03/11 15:20, Eric Blake wrote:
Sounds to me like the gnulib fallback should be made smarter. Which
systems lack linkat() but have the capability to set timestamps? BSD?
But the original report was about opensuse, which is Linux based, and my
recollection is that Linux handles hardlinks
