Re: cp -up forever

[Paul Eggert]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

> Perhaps fixed already?

I don't get that behavior with my copy of coreutils 5.2.1
(which I built myself under Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1).

Can you investigate why it's happening for you?
Try running "strace -v cp -upv g h" and looking
at the last few lines of output.  Here are the
last 5 lines when I run:

lstat64("h", {st_dev=makedev(3, 2), st_ino=66601, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_nlink=1, st_uid=1000, st_gid=1000, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=0, st_size=0, 
st_atime=2004/10/09-08:19:36, st_mtime=2004/10/09-08:19:36, 
st_ctime=2004/10/09-08:19:40}) = 0
stat64("h", {st_dev=makedev(3, 2), st_ino=66601, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_nlink=1, st_uid=1000, st_gid=1000, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=0, st_size=0, 
st_atime=2004/10/09-08:19:36, st_mtime=2004/10/09-08:19:36, 
st_ctime=2004/10/09-08:19:40}) = 0
stat64("g", {st_dev=makedev(3, 2), st_ino=66597, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_nlink=1, st_uid=1000, st_gid=1000, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=0, st_size=0, 
st_atime=2004/10/09-08:19:40, st_mtime=2004/10/09-08:19:36, 
st_ctime=2004/10/09-08:19:36}) = 0
stat64("h", {st_dev=makedev(3, 2), st_ino=66601, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_nlink=1, st_uid=1000, st_gid=1000, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=0, st_size=0, 
st_atime=2004/10/09-08:19:36, st_mtime=2004/10/09-08:19:36, 
st_ctime=2004/10/09-08:19:40}) = 0
_exit(0)                                = ?