Re: incorrect copy of modify time in cp

[Paul E Condon]

I just did some similar tests of tar:

tar appears to store a correct, full precision mtime in a .tar
file, and use that full precision mtime when deciding whether
to write a new copy of a file when processing -u option.

However, it does NOT set the mtime the full precision when
files are extracted from the .tar file. It only restores
the integral part of the second. The fractional part is all
zeros.

This is not as troublesome as is the behavior of cp, just
muddled. i.e., even in a really trivial case, the extracted
file system is not identical to the original.

Oops! Maybe all this has been fixed. I'm working with Debian
Sarge. My cp version is cp (coreutils) 5.2.1
My tar version is tar (GNU tar) 1.14

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