Re: [PATCH/RFH] Racy GIT (part #3)

From: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Jun 30, 2006, 07:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20060630074300.GA1643@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v7j2zpr6k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hello,

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Does everybody have "cp -p" to preserve the file timestamps on
> his/her platform?  I am assuming this is safe (it is in POSIX),
> but please raise hand if that is not a case for you.

Solaris[1] has two different "cp"s[2].

 From cp(1):
	[...] [/usr/bin/cp] does not fail if unable to preserve extended
	attributes, modification and access time, or permission modes.

	[...] [/usr/xpg4/bin/cp] does not fail if unable to preserve
	extended attributes.  If unable to duplicate the modification
	and access time or the permission modes, cp prints a diagnostic
	message to stderr and return a non-zero exit status.

There is yet an other difference when -@ is specified. The complete man page can be found at docs.sun.com[2].

Best regards Uwe

[1] in my case Solaris 10 = SunOS 5.10 and Solaris 9 = SunOS 5.9 [2] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5165/6mbb0m9dm?a=view

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