Good eye! Thanks for the bug report and example. I installed
the following one-byte patch into gnulib; please give it a try.
It should propagate into coreutils the next time coreutils
updates from gnulib.
A test case for this would require two file systems, one with
finer-grained time stamps tha
P.S., regarding the documentation of `.LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME'
Here with GNU Make 3.81, I think you should not blame the cp command,
but instead say "when using a mixture of filesystem types, or in some
other situations, one might want to specify some files were made with
low resolution timestamps..."
> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes:
EZ> What's wrong with using the special target .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME?
One cannot find it with searches for "seconds" "comparison" etc.
OK, thanks! Please add a cross reference to it on many of the places where
(Info-search "modification") is mentioned. Thanks.
> From: jida...@jidanni.org
> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:13:31 +0800
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
>
> > "PS" == Paul Smith writes:
>
> PS> Make already uses high-resolution timestamps for comparison
> PS> automatically on filesystems that support it, if that's what you
> PS> mean.
>
> That's the p
> "PS" == Paul Smith writes:
PS> Make already uses high-resolution timestamps for comparison
PS> automatically on filesystems that support it, if that's what you
PS> mean.
That's the problem, when two different resolution filesystems are
involved, make will always see these,
$ ls -l /tmp/zao
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:41 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> By the way, make(1) lacks any of this time comparison resolution
> machinery at all! I'll CC them.
Can you be more clear? What is the behavior you are missing today, that
you would like to have?
I'm not following how this feature of
X-Debbugs-cc: bug-coreut...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
man cp says:
`-u'
`--update'
Do not copy a non-directory that has an existing destination with
the same or newer modification time. If time stamps are being
preserved, the comparison is to the s
