Hello, "cp -p" seems to not preserve the modification time of symlinks. This is not mentioned in the man page. Other systems I tested (others BSDs and Linux) do preserve the mtime of symlinks with e.g. "cp -a". The OpenBSD kernel also does support to set it with e.g. utimensat(2).
Is this intented? If not--is it an known issue? How to reproduce: ln -s foo bar ... wait some time ... cp -p bar blah -> bar and blah have different mtimes. Carsten