On 31/03/11 15:20, Eric Blake wrote: > Sounds to me like the gnulib fallback should be made smarter. Which > systems lack linkat() but have the capability to set timestamps? BSD? > But the original report was about opensuse, which is Linux based, and my > recollection is that Linux handles hardlinks to symlinks much longer > than it could set symlink timestamps.
When you put it like that, then it's probably not worth worrying about updating timestamps in gnulib, when it's probably not even possible. cheers, Pádraig.
