Re: coreutils-6.9 problem with --preserve-timestamps

[Bob Proulx]

Warren L Dodge wrote:
> I just found an issue where coreutils-6.9 does not seem to work right with
> the --preserve=timestamps switch when copying to an nfs filesytem when the
> pwd is the same directory.

Thanks for the report.  Could you run your test case again under
'strace' and report the result for the failing case?

> /tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.9/bin/cp   --preserve=timestamps  file /tmp/file_2
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 warrend fusion2 6402 Aug 14 14:14 ./file_2   < BAD

Try this:

  strace -e trace=file -o /tmp/cp.strace.out /tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.9/bin/cp 
--preserve=timestamps file /tmp/file_2

That should report useful information to understand what it is doing
under the hood.  Please send the resulting information back to the
mailing list.

Thanks
Bob