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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: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:39:18 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <3405-Sun24Feb2002180347+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Feb 24, 2002 06:03:48 PM
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>     c:\foo> cp -pvPr dir1/* dir2
>     cp: preserving times for dir2/dir1: Permission denied (EACCES)

> I understand why the error message is printed, but the DJGPP port
> shouldn't print it, since we know DOS/Windows doesn't let us change
> the time stamps of directories, so this failure is normal behavior,
> not something the user should be bothered with.

Is this check in the library or in the application?

> I'm also puzzled as to why is the message printed after cp copies
> dir1/file1, not after it copies dir1 into dir2.

I didn't see this (see below).

> My cp.exe is dated June 4, 2001, and its size is 128000 bytes, in case
> this is important.

I don't have this cp.exe - I have an (old) cvs/w2k testing one and the
one I updated in the refresh.

I copied my djgpp tree as the test.

I get:
cp: preserving times for test/djgpp: Permission denied (EACCES)

after the last file in djgpp/bin is copied - with both images.  I don't see
this message for any other directories in the tree, just this one (which
is the first one).  So, I also see this message, but only for the first
directory copied, and after the contents of the directory were copied.

I also observed random failures when setting the file dates.  Using both
the cvs version and 2.03 refresh I got some EACCES errors (1 or 2 for each
tree also in the bin directory).  File copied fine, but the date was not
set.  This testing was under Win95 (don't have access to other boxes now).