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Date:      Sat, 05 Apr 2003 13:53:23 +0200
From:      des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: outdated files after make world
Message-ID:  <xzp4r5dcg98.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030404202411.GC82587@sunbay.com> (Ruslan Ermilov's message of "Fri, 4 Apr 2003 23:24:11 %2B0300")
References:  <01C2FAE8.1CA187E0@ari@snafu.de> <20030404202411.GC82587@sunbay.com>

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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes:
> > | -C	Copy the file.  If the target file already exists and the files
> > |	are the same, then don't change the modification time of the tar-
> > |	get.
> > This is ambiguos. Does that mean the file isn't copied at all, or=20
> > is it copied with the mtime preserved (and thus changes the ctime)?
> There used to be a bug.  It is fixed in 5.0-CURRENT:
> : -C   Copy the file.  If the target file already exists and the files
> :      are the same, then don't change the modification time of the tar-
> :      get.  If the target's file flags and mode need not to be changed,
> :      the target's inode change time is also unchanged.
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's still a bug.  If the files match, nothing is copied.  RTFS.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org



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