On 10/02/2023 21:50, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2/10/23 13:35, George Valkov wrote:
Since the source and it’s clone have separate metadata,
it should be possible to change it on the clone, to comply with standards.
Attached is a hacky patch to do that. It also uses the new CLONE_ACL
flag. The old code apparently mishandled ACLs; the new code tries to do
a better job.
Yes this is looking much better.
I'm not fully convinced that we should also update the times,
but not against it either.
This whole area is a mess, but the patch should improve correctness on
macOS, while also being efficient in the usual case.
Yes it's a pity there is no fd (data) only interface for this,
rather than dealing with names (metadata) too.
thanks,
Pádraig.
