Michael G Schwern wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:30:54AM -0700, kynn jones wrote:
>  
>
>>File::Copy::mv does not preserve the file's mtime across NFS-mounted
>>filesystems.  This differs from the behavior of the Unix mv(1)
>>command, and is not documented in the man page for File::Copy.
>>    
>>
>
>You're right.  And the problem affects any cross-partition move.  mv()
>falls back to copy() if it cannot rename, as in the case of moving across
>partitions, but it does not adjust the mtimes to match.
>
>The attached patch should fix this by setting the atime and mtime of the
>copied file.
>
Thanks.  Applied as change 25120.



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