G.P. Walker BEng (Hons) MIET EngTech wrote: > I don't know where the core issue lies.
Please try using 'strace' to trace the system calls and show the results of them. strace -o cp-a.strace.out cp -a SRC DST I believe the output of that should be sufficiently small and should contain the information needed to determine where the problem exists. > If the files are copied using ssh with switches to preserve dates, > the files do preserve the dates. This leads me to believe the issue > lies within the cp application or the fileutils/coreutils package. Interesting. Given your present information I would agree. But because the libc and the kernel are both involved and both are also different between the systems and because I have seen related issues there I am suspicious of them. There are multiple different ways to obtain and set file timestamp information. It is possible that scp is using a different system call than cp and therefore different behavior results. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
