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?