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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 10:19:00 -0600 (CST)
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> 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 :-)

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