Subject: RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

11 Jul 1998 20:52:11 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDAD2E.CADFFE20.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
        Jacques Lavictoire
	 <[email-masked]>,
        "[email-masked]'"
	 <[email-masked]>

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> On a FAT filesystem there is only one timestamp and that is the date
> of last access.  Therefore, when tar accesses the file it updates the
> timestamp to the file and then will think that it has been modified.
> 

Vfat on 95 and NT holds all three timestamps.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia

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