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- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 14:06:08 +0200
- Message-Id: <9307211206.AA05407@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- Subject: utime() and symbolic links
-
- Utime() does not work correctly with symbolic links, since it is not
- possible to "open" them; instead the file they point to is touched. I
- think there should really be a native utime() provided by the file
- system, and Fcntl(FUTIME) (and Fdatime) should only be used to
- implement futime(), or if the file system doesn't implement utime()
- directly. That would also mean that we don't need a Dcntl() for
- utime() on directories.
-
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- Andreas Schwab "And now for something
- schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
-