Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Bob Proulx on 8/27/2007 6:55 PM: >> 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. > > But note that the next revision of POSIX will be adding futimensat, which > WILL support setting the (cosmetic) timestamp of symlinks.
It's already supported by Linux (since 2.6.22) and glibc (since 2.6). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
