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Re: dates not restored properly for symbolic links


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: dates not restored properly for symbolic links
Date: 18 Apr 2001 11:34:08 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.0.103

address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) wrote:
| I used tar xvzf
| tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17
| it just uses the current time.
| tar ztvf shows them ok.

That's a limitation of the system.
Most systems lack (and POSIX doesn't provide) a function
that can set the times on a symlink.



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