Carsten Kunze wrote: > Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Probably not intended. Just an artifact left over from the era before you > > could set times on symlinks. (not likely that many people care, either.) > > I do care--I have a sync software (similar to rsync) which compares mtime and > length. lstat needs do be done anyway so there are just two integer compares > instead of two readlink and strcmp. This software "failes" after a "cp > -RpP". If a patch is accepted I'd like to file a bug report with a patch.
Sure. I just meant it's gone unnoticed for a long time, but we can still fix it. patches welcome.
