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Re: file times and cp -u
- From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff at aonix dot co dot uk>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:34:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: file times and cp -u
- Organization: Aonix Europe
- References: <1578FF984ABAD411AFA5000102C4BB5B04E41340@nimbus>
> We're having a problem with 'cp -u'. It would appear that when you copy a
> file in the manner the sub-second part of the files' timestamp gets zeroed
> out causing the file to be recopied on subsequent attempts. Is this a bug
> in cp or is it intentional behaviour?
Are you copying to a FAT partition? File timestamp granularity on
FAT is 2 seconds, so that would be expected behaviour.
-- Cliff
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