-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrVH/0ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBDNwCg1pLhVRqtI66GjzA1oeLdvYVK KR0AoMw+7xQ2pyMS/pJ0lJbrYJQMxOIt =zSB5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
