Re: Touch symlink

[Henri Shustak]

> > 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?