Debian Bug report logs - #421491
Possible fileutils regression in debian 4

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Package: coreutils; Maintainer for coreutils is Michael Stone <[email protected]>; Source for coreutils is src:coreutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: "G.P. Walker BEng (Hons) MIET EngTech" <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:45:05 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version coreutils/5.97-5.3

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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3

Copying a file to a windows share mounted using the kernel cifs module 
in debian 4 causes the date stamps not to be preserved using cp -p , cp 
-a, cp --preserve=all . Under woody, this behaviour was not seen, and 
the date stamps were correctly preserved when requested.

In conducting some research into this problem, I discovered this 
ubuntu bug report, however it relates to copy  via nfs not cifs. 
However the behaviour is identical to that I am now seeing with debian 
4.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15
/+bug/57317

Sadly, it appears that it is not just debian 4 that suffers with this 
issue. I have tried a gentoo system and that too has this behaviour.

I don't know where the core issue lies. If the files are copied using 
ssh with switches to preserve dates, the files do preserve the dates. 
This leads me to believe the issue lies within the cp application or 
the fileutils/coreutils package.

Thanks for reading.





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