Re: cp --preserve=mode not right on rh4 and nfs

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Warren L Dodge <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I have built coreutils-6.12 on a GNU/Linux RedHat3 system. When I use
>> the "cp" command with the --preserve=mode,timestamps switch there is a
>> problem where a copy to a nfs mounted file system does not set the
>> timesamp properly.
>>
>> I show examples below where I run the command on GNU/Linux RedHat3 and it
>> works as expected. Then I run the same binary on GNU/Linux RedHat4 and
>> it does not work properly.
>
> Thank you for the fine report.
>
> This does sound like a bug...
> The problem is that you configured and built on one type of system

s/is/may be/

If your problem is due to the bug Andreas just mentioned,

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6127

then coreutils is unlikely to be able to work around the kernel bug.

If you can eliminate the RHEL4 misbehavior by using
coreutils binaries configured and built on that same
system, then please let us know.