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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-07-27 17:08:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-08-04 17:38:54 +0200 |
| commit | eae535e1a322e244248bd31ed7e21ac95ecaa16d (patch) | |
| tree | ecc8956558befd65ef146eb233d46e16dba7c735 /NEWS | |
| parent | 1762092901adf040445d59931d14837ef7f2ebe1 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-eae535e1a322e244248bd31ed7e21ac95ecaa16d.tar.xz | |
cp -pP (and e.g., -a): preserve time stamps on symlinks, too
* src/copy.c (utimensat_if_possible): New function.
(copy_internal): Remove variable, "preserve_metadata".
Replace with "dest_is_symlink". That covers all cases but one:
the one in which cp --link has created hard links to non-directories.
In that case, there is no need to update attributes of the links.
Use utimensat_if_possible, to preserve timestamps of symlinks.
* NEWS (New features): Mention this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp/preserve-slink-time.
* tests/cp/preserve-slink-time: New file.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Test for utimensat.
Reported in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- chroot now accepts the options --userspec and --groups. + cp now preserves time stamps on symbolic links, when possible + cp, install, mv: take advantage of btrfs' O(1) copy-on-write feature when both the source and destination are on the same btrfs partition. |