Re: 2.9 cpio -pm file modification time not retained for new directories

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 24 12:16, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I run a command similar to this:
>
>    find srcdir -depth | cpio -pdvm archive-dir
>
> cpio v2.9 does not retain the modification timestamp of non-empty  
> directories under srcdir that do not already exist in archive-dir, i.e.  
> when cpio creates a new non-empty directory under archive-dir its mtime  
> is set to the time of its creation, not the mtime of the directory it  
> copied from srcdir.  If the directory under srcdir is empty (has no  
> files in it) the mtime is retained correctly.

Thanks for the report.  The Cygwin version of cpio has been built from
the vanilla upstream sources of cpio-2.9 and it appears this is an
upstream bug.  I found that already quite a few bugfixes exist for cpio
2.9 and AFAICS this bug should be fixed by one of them as well.

I'm somewhat time constraint in the next couple of days, but I will 
update cpio to all the bugfixes I have available, eventually.


Corinna

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