Re: Move does not preserve timestamps.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:54:24 -0500
"Jonathan A. Irwin" <jnthn_gmane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > For "real" moves, only the ctime is changed, and AFAIK there's
> > nothing practical that can be done about that.
> 
> Yes... I do expect ctime to change. However, mtime changing when
> files are moved is, IMO, a Bad Thing.
> 
> > Now that you mention it, I realise that when moving between
> > partitions, between filesystems etc (where it must fall back to a
> > copying  process),
> 
> Aha! That's maybe why I never noticed it before. The files that first
> caught my eye on this were indeed moved from one partition to another.
> 
> > the mtime and atime would not be preserved. I can  readily fix that.
> 
> Would be much appreciated. Thanks, Tom.

Now in svn. Preservation of times on symlinks (as opposed to their targets) 
seems to be impossible.

Regards
Tom


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