bin/91316: pax -pe does not preserve times on symlinks

[J.R. Oldroyd]

>Number:         91316
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       pax -pe does not preserve times on symlinks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 04 20:40:04 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     J.R. Oldroyd
>Release:        6.0 and 7.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD linwhf.opal.com 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Wed Nov  9 11:17:26 EST 2005 xx at linwhf.opal.com:/usr/obj/usr/src-current/sys/LINWHF  i386
       
>Description:
Use of the pax -pe option is supposed to "`Preserve everything', the user ID, group ID, file mode bits, file access time, and file modification time." however this is not honored for symlinks that are copied.

>How-To-Repeat:
mkdir /tmp/x
pax -rw -pe /path/to/a/symlink /tmp/x
ls -l /path/to/a/symlink /tmp/x/path/to/a/symlink


>Fix:
I suspect that when a symlink is copied, pax needs to check for this and use lutimes() instead of utimes() to preserve the original times.  Don't have a patch, though.
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