X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) Message-Id: <10202251619.AA26727@clio.rice.edu> Subject: Re: cp complains about timestamps of directories To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:19:00 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: from "Eli Zaretskii" at Feb 25, 2002 07:57:18 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > Because it's IMHO useless to nag the user about something that cannot be > done on the underlying platform. I agree with that ... > There's nothing the user can do about that; in fact, users do not expect > that to work on DOS/Windows. It's normal behavior, and normal behavior > should not trigger warnings. But actually it *DOES* work with Windows 2000 and Windows XP - directories have the correct dates. (This is a byproduct of Andrew's patch). The interrupt call was buggy under Win95 so not used - I don't know if it was fixed in Win98 - but in any case it's only called for "NT-like" systems. The cp from the refreshed fileutils (based on 2.03 refresh) can set directory dates without problems (verified in quick testing). I don't think we should change the current warning suppression - but it is reasonable to expect some things to work, and they do if you get a more reasonable operating system :-)