Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:49:07 +0200 > From: "Gabor Z. Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would like, that touch modify also the date of the link > itself, not just the linked file's date. > It can't be done, at least not on Solaris. There's no system call > to do it. I assume other Unixes are similar. There are a lot of strangeties about symlinks. They sometimes vary widely between Unixes. Paul, take a look somewhere in `paxutils/rmail/...' and search for folder names with `link' or `symlink' in them. I only vaguely remember by now. I guess you should find a lot of collected information about these things. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
