On Tuesday 09 May 2006 03:45, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > a user pointed out that `cp -p` failed to preserve times on a nfs mount:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/132673
>
> That bug report talks about mtime, but then you write:

yes, right ... i was thinking that -p should be preserving all three 
timestamps when really i should have read the same document i quoted where it 
reads:
The time of last data modification and time of last access. If this 
duplication fails for any reason, cp shall write a diagnostic message to 
standard error.

so just ignore me, thanks :)
-mike


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