Re: Touch symlink

[Eric Blake]

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According to Henri Shustak on 10/13/2009 6:34 PM:
>>> Should there be an option for touching the link and leaving the
>>> original file?
>> Most likely yes, however, I don't know of any way to implement such an
>> option in portable Posix code, on GNU/Linux, or on Solaris. FreeBSD
>> can do it, though: its touch has a "-h" option that does what you
>> want, and GNU touch could be modified to support -h on BSDish systems.
> Just curious has any one actually implemented such a flag for BSDish
> systems? If not, is there a technical reason why this flag should not be
> added?

What great timing!  Until last week, yes, there was a technical reason why
we couldn't add 'touch -h' - there wasn't enough support for it.  But now
that my gnulib utimensat module is nearly complete, we FINALLY can support
this on modern GNU/Linux machines, and the addition of touch -h is rapidly
moving up to the top of my todo list.  It will probably be included in
time for coreutils 8.1.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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