Re: cygwin cp bug?

[Bob Proulx]

Larry Bassel wrote:
> I just updated my cygwin to the latest (I was running a version from 
> January before that).
> There seems to be a problem with "cp -a" and "cp -p" where they no 
> longer preserve
> the timestamp on the copied file (this used to work as the man page said).
> cp --preserve=timestamps still works.

Thanks for the report.  But this works fine in the upstream code.

Could you make your report to the cygwin folks?  Here is a pointer to
their mailing lists.

  http://cygwin.com/lists.html

Thanks
Bob

> The /usr/bin/cp I have is dated May 12 and is of size 80896.
> 
> Has the functionality of cp changed? Is this a bug? Am I somehow doing 
> something
> wrong (I'm just running "cp -a" and checking the result with "ls -l" 
> though)?
> 
> I'm running Windows 98 if that matters.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Larry