Re: timestamp on symlink

2002-07-29 Thread Martin Pool
On 29 Jul 2002, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is because most of python's os.xxx methods de-reference symlinks. You > get this error because 'nothere' doesn't exist. The correct way to get time > info on symlinks is to use os.lstat(), which doesn't de-reference links. I realize

Re: timestamp on symlink

2002-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:40:56PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 28 Jul 2002, Michael Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rsync does not sync the timestamp on symlink (Solaris 8). > > > > It is probablly due to the limitation of Unix implementation > > of symlink, but I would like to know why rs

Re: timestamp on symlink

2002-07-28 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:40:56PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 28 Jul 2002, Michael Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rsync does not sync the timestamp on symlink (Solaris 8). > > > > It is probablly due to the limitation of Unix implementation > > of symlink, but I would like to know why rs

Re: timestamp on symlink

2002-07-28 Thread Martin Pool
On 28 Jul 2002, Michael Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rsync does not sync the timestamp on symlink (Solaris 8). > > It is probablly due to the limitation of Unix implementation > of symlink, but I would like to know why rsync/Unix does not > do this, and what we can do about it. Is the conclu