GNU bug report logs - #7529
Bug#605639: deal better with different filesystem timestamp resolutions

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org, 605639 <at> bugs.debian.org

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:04:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 8.5-1

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: submit <at> bugs.debian.org
Cc: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, bug-make <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#7529: Bug#605639: deal better with different filesystem timestamp resolutions
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:41:53 +0800

X-Debbugs-cc: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, bug-make <at> gnu.org
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1

man cp says:
`-u'
`--update'
     Do not copy a non-directory that has an existing destination with
     the same or newer modification time.  If time stamps are being
     preserved, the comparison is to the source time stamp truncated to
     the resolutions of the destination file system and of the system
     calls used to update time stamps; this avoids duplicate work if
     several `cp -pu' commands are executed with the same source and
     destination.

But it seems that isn't working too much/well,

$ touch /tmp/f
$ /bin/cp -avu /tmp/f .
`/tmp/f' -> `./f'
$ /bin/cp -avu /tmp/f .
`/tmp/f' -> `./f'
$ /bin/cp -avu /tmp/f .
`/tmp/f' -> `./f'
$ ls -l --full-time f /tmp/f
-rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 0 2010-12-02 08:25:47.682527260 +0800 /tmp/f
-rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 0 2010-12-02 08:25:47.000000000 +0800 f
$ mount
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)

It might work great f -> /tmp/f, but not the other way around.

By the way, make(1) lacks any of this time comparison resolution
machinery at all! I'll CC them.
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