[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) wrote on 01.09.05 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > a.out archives used to work this way too, e.g. on SunOS 4. The idea > > was that people would often use ar without updating the symbol table. > > Thus the symbol table has a timestamp. The linker checks that the > > timestamp of the symbol table is not older than the file modification > > time of the archive. > > But then all you have to do is copy the timestamp, too. This sounded more > like saving inode numbers and stuff ... > > I am, of course, accustomed to a cp that can copy timestamps. And I see > that my install also has a -p option ...
We're talking SunOS 4 here, which was just acting as earlier systems did. Back then the options to cp were -i, -f and -r. And install was a new fangled shell script that most packages didn't use. Ian
