Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a thought: we could extend --update to have an optional operand > specifying a fuzz for timestamps.
Following up on my own idea, here's perhaps a better thought: `cp -pu' could keep track, for each destination filesystem, the timestamp resolution for that filesystem. The first time that `cp' copies a file to the filesystem, it could "put its toe in the water" by trying to set the destination file's timestamp (to, say, (floor (current_time) + 0.999999)), and then examine what happens to the timestamp; that way `cp' can determine the timestamp resolution for that filesystem, so it can deduce the fuzz itself without having the user specify any fuzz. This way, we wouldn't need to add any options to "cp". _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
