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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#32250: ls -explain better the different times |
Date: | Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:05:02 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 |
Assaf Gordon wrote:
Attached is an improvement suggestion, adding a summary table, and details examples. Comments and feedback welcomed,
I'm afraid that table goes into so much detail that it will overwhelm the user. Why, for example, have separate lines for chmod and chown?
Also, some of the entries look too system-specific. For example, POSIX doesn't require that 'ls DIR' must update the access time of DIR, many systems don't update access times even when POSIX says they should, and on some systems symbolic links' timestamps are irrelevant and/or unchangeable.
Also, since when does "cp -p a b" not update a's access time? Traditional 'cp' does update the source's access time, and POSIX seems to require that.
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