Re: [PATCH] cp: preserve time stamps on symlinks, too

2009-08-04 Thread Jim Meyering
I've just pushed the following. The only change from the previous version was to pull five #if-polluted lines up into their own function. >From eae535e1a322e244248bd31ed7e21ac95ecaa16d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:08:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cp -pP (and

Re: [PATCH] cp: preserve time stamps on symlinks, too

2009-08-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> This patch may not be ready for prime time. >>> I wrote it and the test a few days ago, but haven't >>> gone back and looked closely. There are just too many >>> branches and use cases, and I'm sure I haven't considered >>> all

Re: [PATCH] cp: preserve time stamps on symlinks, too

2009-08-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> This patch may not be ready for prime time. >> I wrote it and the test a few days ago, but haven't >> gone back and looked closely. There are just too many >> branches and use cases, and I'm sure I haven't considered >> all of them. However, all tests

Re: [PATCH] cp: preserve time stamps on symlinks, too

2009-07-31 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > This patch may not be ready for prime time. > I wrote it and the test a few days ago, but haven't > gone back and looked closely. There are just too many > branches and use cases, and I'm sure I haven't considered > all of them. However, all tests do pass, at least on > rece

[PATCH] cp: preserve time stamps on symlinks, too

2009-07-30 Thread Jim Meyering
This patch may not be ready for prime time. I wrote it and the test a few days ago, but haven't gone back and looked closely. There are just too many branches and use cases, and I'm sure I haven't considered all of them. However, all tests do pass, at least on recent gnu/linux systems. If anyone