stealth=on does not work in copy

[Elmar Kurgpold]

The documentation states regarding the stealth option, "If set to `on'
causes cfengine to preserve atime and mtime on source files during local
file copies."  Using the following script:

    control:
        actionsequence = ( copy )

    copy:
        any:: /var/tmp/sourcefile
            dest=/var/tmp/destfile
            stealth=on
            type=checksum

cfengine does not preserve atime or mtime.  I've tried this with 1.5.4 as
well as 1.6.0.a11.

While I'm bringing it up, the reference guide says that "file times cannot
be preserved on remote copies."  I never understood why this is stated,
since it seems trivial to have cfd pass the mtime and atime of a file.  I
always figured that it was some combination of a long todo list,
portability issues, and some inherent drawbacks in the cfengine network
protocol. I just noticed that stealth is also mentioned in the ChangeLog
file for 1.4.15: "stealth on remote copies was broken."  I wasn't around
for that version, so was it something that worked and then went away, like
the stealth option for local files? :-)

        ++Elmar

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