Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The mtime of a file is not copied fully when -a option is > invoked. This can be seen only when --full-time is used to display the > original and the copied files. In particular the last three digits of > the copy mtime (the nano-seconds part) are always zero in the copy.
Most likely your operating system gives a program no way to set the last three digits. Coreutils can't do anything to fix this unless there's OS support for this. There is a proposal before the Open Group for system calls "futimespec" and "futimespecat" that would do the right thing here; see <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag-review/msg02086.html>. If you could arrange to have your operating system support these two system calls, we could change coreutils to use them. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
