Re: touch command

[Andreas Schwab]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> 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.

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