On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 13:38 +0100, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Wed, November 14, 2007 06:25, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > This is the first I've heard of this. I don't think Linux ever > > supported setting the modification times on symlinks. Surely, I wouldn't > > expect it to be supported in file-system specific code. > > I couldn't find a POSIX statement on utime() and symbolic links, only some > IBM document[0], saying that utime() would resolve the symbolic links, > hence modifying the targets, not the symlinks. And that's what I see on > Linux/ext3 and on Solaris/ufs:
I'm pretty sure it's not posix, but there's a new (at least to linux) function called lutimes() which does set the time on a symlink. I know the kernel support (utimesat) was added in linux-2.6.22. I'm not clear on when the function was added to glibc. It seems Charles' problem was that he built rsync on one system (which probably had a newer glibc), and ran it on another where the lutimes() function failed. Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list Jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
