From 8856cce94ac4d2104c2592ef26afe62c52814af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rswindell <>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:57:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] When backup() used with the copy option (ren = false), set
the copied file time stamp (modification time) to the original file's time
stamp, since we're not modifying the contents when making the copy.
---
src/sbbs3/scfgsave.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/sbbs3/scfgsave.c b/src/sbbs3/scfgsave.c
index 7f48181fb3..eee8f042a1 100644
--- a/src/sbbs3/scfgsave.c
+++ b/src/sbbs3/scfgsave.c
@@ -162,9 +162,18 @@ BOOL DLLCALL backup(char *fname, int backup_level, BOOL ren)
if(ren == TRUE) {
if(rename(fname,newname)!=0)
return(FALSE);
- } else
+ } else {
+ struct utimbuf ut;
+
+ /* preserve the original time stamp */
+ ut.modtime = fdate(fname);
+
if(!fcopy(fname,newname))
return(FALSE);
+
+ ut.actime = time(NULL);
+ utime(newname, &ut);
+ }
continue;
}
safe_snprintf(oldname,sizeof(oldname),"%.*s.%d%s",len,fname,i-2,ext);
--
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