Kukks noticed that cp -p can write out file data too late, after the timestamp
is already set.  This was introduced as an unintentional sideeffect of the change
in an earlier patch (see below) which fixed some delayed return code propagation.

cea21805
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 20 23:19:03 2007 +0000
Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>