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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-08-29 22:56:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-08-30 12:02:02 +0200 |
| commit | e3ccc324d32f41727cf9b26ce50330e1f24a1385 (patch) | |
| tree | 271970095d4f81b3786a8574d7aa56c1aed8a612 /doc | |
| parent | a10ba58f3cabfe316b714c476bceafe36059fd7b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-e3ccc324d32f41727cf9b26ce50330e1f24a1385.tar.xz | |
doc: cp: update note on preserving symlink time stamps
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Now, we *do* preserve time
stamps on symlinks, when possible.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f4be2c2f0..33877afc6 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7445,12 +7445,10 @@ may preserve the group ownership of a file only if they happen to be a member of the desired group. @itemx timestamps Preserve the times of last access and last modification, when possible. -In general, it is not possible to preserve these attributes +On older systems, it is not possible to preserve these attributes when the affected file is a symbolic link. -However, FreeBSD now provides the @code{lutimes} function, which makes -it possible even for symbolic links. However, this implementation does -not yet take advantage of that. -@c FIXME: once we provide lutimes support, update the above. +However, many systems now provide the @code{utimensat} function, +which makes it possible even for symbolic links. @itemx links Preserve in the destination files any links between corresponding source files. |