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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: cp complains about timestamps of directories
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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:05:23 -0600 (CST)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
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> If you are asking where does `cp' check if setting the time stamp of a 
> directory failed, then it's in the application code.  

Okay, just wondering if there was something magic in libc or if it was
in fileutils code.

> What does "cp --version" say, and what is the dat of your binary?

Both are 4.0; dates are 12/26/01 for the v2.03 refresh, 9/29/01 for
old CVS build.

> It's possible that my binary is not the latest one, so perhaps this 
> problem was fixed larter.

Since I saw the problem also, I don't think it's fixed.

> > I also observed random failures when setting the file dates.  Using both
> > the cvs version and 2.03 refresh I got some EACCES errors (1 or 2 for each
> > tree also in the bin directory).  File copied fine, but the date was not
> > set.  This testing was under Win95 (don't have access to other boxes now).
> 
> This should be investigated, IMHO.  Setting file dates should work.  Is 
> it truly random, i.e. each time a different file, or are some specific 
> files involved?

It appears truely random, and it's on Windows 95, so I expect it to be
flakey.  (My wife had all the good boxes taken when I was reading email).
If I get a chance I'll check some more.