Re: Touch symlink

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 10/13/2009 6:44 PM:
> 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.

By the way, I had to go digging to see what you were replying to.  The
original thread that you quoted, without any In-Reply-To field, and
without attribution to Donald J. Axel or Paul Eggert, dated from
4/25/2006; back then, utimensat did not exist.  It would have been nice to
give just a bit more context to make it obvious that you were responding
to a 3-year-old thread.  It is only with the recent POSIX 2008 addition of
utimensat that we can support touching symlink timestamps, as well as full
nanosecond resolution.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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