Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:46:21 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can mkisofs leave file dates unaltered? [repost] Message-ID: <199702250616.QAA12983@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0vzFKg-000umHC@nemesis.lonestar.org> from Frank Durda IV at "Feb 24, 97 11:21:00 pm"
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Frank Durda IV stands accused of saying: > > I am trying to use mkisofs to create some backups and it appears to be > working fine, except that the stored files all have dates and times of > when mkisfos was run instead of the actual date/time stamps on the > files I am trying to archive. Is this the mkisofs left over from your 2.1 system, or the port from sysutils? mkisofs was removes from the base system some time back. > Any ideas? The man page for mkisofs doesn't seem to mention anything > about controlling dates. I need the CD9660 date/times on files to be > unaltered so that a non-Rock Ridge systems (Windoze/DOS) will see the > correct dates. Mkisofs was/is a horrible piece of work, and it's quite possible that the author just got the datestamping completely wrong. A quick eyeball over tree.c makes be queasy but doesn't tell me a lot; you would probably get some good results from a handful of debugging printfs. > Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi" -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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