outdated files after make world
Dag-ErlingSmørgrav
des at ofug.org
Sat Apr 5 03:53:27 PST 2003
Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> writes:
> > | -C Copy the file. If the target file already exists and the files
> > | are the same, then don't change the modification time of the tar-
> > | get.
> > This is ambiguos. Does that mean the file isn't copied at all, or
> > is it copied with the mtime preserved (and thus changes the ctime)?
> There used to be a bug. It is fixed in 5.0-CURRENT:
> : -C Copy the file. If the target file already exists and the files
> : are the same, then don't change the modification time of the tar-
> : get. If the target's file flags and mode need not to be changed,
> : the target's inode change time is also unchanged.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's still a bug. If the files match, nothing is copied. RTFS.
DES
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