From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 24 22:17:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA28642 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:17:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA28632; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:16:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA12983; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:46:23 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702250616.QAA12983@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Can mkisofs leave file dates unaltered? [repost] In-Reply-To: from Frank Durda IV at "Feb 24, 97 11:21:00 pm" To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:46:21 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 |"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 [[