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Re: touch command
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: touch command |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:37:44 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061116) |
Bob Proulx wrote:
> address@hidden 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.