Re: [Bug-cpio] directory times not restored

[Tim Kientzle]

Jeph Cowan wrote:
> The modification date/times of the files are maintained as original,
> but the date/time of the directories is the date/time of the restore.

What version?

I seem to recall Sergey fixing this in GNU cpio
fairly recently.

> It seems that this may not be possible as the act of putting(restoring)
> the files into the directory is in fact a modification.

It is tricky to implement.  The technique I used for
libarchive (which I believe is the same technique
Sergey used for GNU cpio) is to keep a list in memory
of directories and mtimes and then set the mtimes at
the very end, after all of the files have been written.
The same technique can be used to correctly restore
directories that are not writable or which have
restrictive file flags or ACLs.

Tim