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Re: touch -h
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Eric Blake |
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Re: touch -h |
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:59:55 -0600 |
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According to Eric Blake on 10/17/2009 2:53 PM:
> Besides, it is consistent with many other tools that use -h to mean
> operation on symlinks proper (even though POSIX 2008 forgot to add 'touch
> -h'), including these from POSIX: chown, chgrp, file
>
> [I still have 'chown -h' on my todo list...]
I meant 'chmod -h', since we already have 'chown -h'. It won't work on
Linux, where fchmodat(,AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) fails as permitted by POSIX,
but will work on BSD and match their implementation:
http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/chmod.1.html
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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