On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 11:59 AM Walter Alejandro Iglesias <w...@roquesor.com> wrote:
> Hi Philip, > > On Tue May 14 19:40:04 2024 Philip Guenther wrote: > > If you like, you could try the following patch to pax to more gracefully > > handle filesystems with time resolution more granular than nanoseconds. > > After applying your patch, as I'd done before reporting the issue, I > sycronized my home directory to an external ext2fs drive with the > command showed by the man page: > > $ pax -rw -v -Z -Y source target > > This time only one file stays updating again an again, a soft link I > have in my ~/bin folder of /usr/local/bin/prename. I think you've managed to hit a spot where the POSIX standard doesn't provide a way for a program to find the information it needs to do its job correctly. I've filed a ticket there https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1831 We'll see if my understanding of pathconf() is incorrect or if someone has a great idea for how to get around this... Philip Guenther
