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* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that --preserve=timestamps

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doesn't preserve time stamps on symbolic links.
Reported by Polo Talnir in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866>.
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2007-03-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that --preserve=timestamps
doesn't preserve time stamps on symbolic links.
Reported by Polo Talnir in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866>.
2007-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (df invocation): With -P, the default block size

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may preserve the group ownership of a file only if they happen to be
a member of the desired group.
@itemx timestamps
Preserve the times of last access and last modification.
Preserve the times of last access and last modification, when possible.
In general, it is not possible to preserve these attributes
when the affected file is a symbolic link.
However, FreeBSD now provides the @code{lutimes} function, which makes
it possibile even for symbolic links. However, this implementation does
not yet take advantage of that.
@c FIXME: once we provide lutimes support, update the above.
@itemx links
Preserve in the destination files
any links between corresponding source files.