outdated files after make world

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:27:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> writes:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:53:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > > That's still a bug.  If the files match, nothing is copied.  RTFS.
> > Sorry?  Where is the bug?
> 
> In the documentation.  It should clearly state that the new file is
> not installed if it is identical to the old one.  No monkey business
> about inode times etc., just "not installed".
> 
Well, not quite.  The code also works around the multiple hard
links problem (in the -s case only) by unlinking the target
but preserving the atime/mtime of the new target.

I'd prefer that we change the definition of "the same" to
also include the fact that the st_nlink be 1, and not
preserve atime/mtime in that case either.  That would
allow us to keep in sync both -C and -Cs cases.

What do you think?


Cheers,
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