Bob Proulx wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am not really sure if it is a bug, but the line command >> "touch" seems incapable of changing the timestamp of a >> link (on a related issue, "tar" does not usually recover >> the timestamp of links). > > There is no lutimes(2) call and therefore way way to set the times on > a symlink. This is why touch does not have a -h option. Since > lchmod(2) is available the chmod command has a -h option and uses it > to change the owner of the symlink.
Could this be simulated by removing and recreating the link? Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
