On 22Jan2007 20:49, Markus Lindholm <markus.lindholm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Never occurred to me that an application could have the discretion | over whether to update the modification time or not. Various backup tools have had such things from time to time. But personally, it would never occur to me that a tool would have such a setting TURNED ON(!) by default. Ouch! For another fun misfeature, I have taken to using the -n option with gzip all the time recently. It turns out that gzip has started writing a timestamp into the compressed output. This means you can compress two files with identical content and get different .gz files :-( Caused a lot of trouble for my hard-link tree backup setups. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It takes seven or eight people to send a FAX. - Anonymous IRS guy
