I have built coreutils-6.12 on a GNU/Linux RedHat3 system. When I use the "cp" command with the --preserve=mode,timestamps switch there is a problem where a copy to a nfs mounted file system does not set the timesamp properly.
I show examples below where I run the command on GNU/Linux RedHat3 and it works as expected. Then I run the same binary on GNU/Linux RedHat4 and it does not work properly. I believe I reported this quite some time ago. I was hoping the problem was solved in coreutils-6.12 as some of the users are needing this functionality. The /tmp on my machine is the local drive. The installed_tree/bin is where I am executing the command. The installed_tree is a nfs mounted file system. It is served by a NetApp system. coreutils-6.12 built on gnu/linux RedHat3 ############################################################################# execute on GNU/Linux RedHat4 ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership yes z ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership yes /tmp/z ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership /tmp/z zz ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership /tmp/z /tmp/zz ll yes /tmp/z /tmp/zz z zz -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 yes -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 /tmp/z -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 /tmp/zz -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:07 z << WRONG TIME -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:08 zz << WRONG TIME ############################################################################# execute on GNU/Linux RedHat3 ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership yes y ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership yes /tmp/y ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership /tmp/y yy ./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership /tmp/y /tmp/yy ll yes /tmp/y /tmp/yy y yy -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 /tmp/y -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 /tmp/yy -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 y -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 yes -rwxr-xr-x 1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 73211 Oct 3 12:02 yy ############################################################################# _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils