The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-12/msg00199.html>:
> I copied a directory hierarchy across a network to a shellfs mount, What's a shellfs mount? Sorry, I've never heard of shellfs. > When they arrived at the far end, all of the ones whose filenames > included a single-quote character returned the "preserving > timestamps: Operation not permitted" error,... What's more, every > file which had been copied now proved to have also had its timestamp > updated. That sounds very much like an error in the shellfs implementation; it shouldn't matter at all whether the file names contain a single-quote character. You can verify this by using "strace" (GNU/Linux) or "truss" (Solaris) on the cp -p command. Something like this: strace -o foo.tr cp -p source dest and then look at foo.tr to see what utimes and/or futimes did. > If there's anything I can do to help resolve this, If the problem is limited to shellfs (whatever that is), then I'd file a bug report with the shellfs maintainers, giving a test case that will let them reproduce the bug. It sounds like they have at least two bugs, one involving file name quoting and the other involving time stamps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
