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SubjectRe: SMB oddness (patch attached)
Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> The only problem I'm having is a long-standing one. I'd really like it if
> the Unix mtime stamp became the visible file timestamp (is it create in
> MS-DOS?) when copying to smb shares. Once upon a time it did work this
> way, and I really don't like "losing" file modify stamps when moving
> across filesystems.

Smbfs is using the mtime value when talking to WfW or MS-DOS systems.
These systems only support a single time, so we use mtime. (AFAIK, smbfs
has always done it this way.) Under what conditions are you not getting
the mtime value as the DOS-side timestamp?

Regards,
Bill

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