On 2007-08-19 12:40:47 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > There seems to be no way to change the timestamps of a symbolic link
> > with a shell command.
>
> There may be no way to change the timestamps of a symbolic link with a
> compiled C program. :-)
OK, it seems that the utime(2) man page is misleading. It says:
utime, utimes - change access and/or modification times of an inode
utime() changes the access and modification times of the inode speci-
fied by filename to the actime and modtime fields of buf respectively.
Since a symlink has its own inode, I'd really thought that this was
this inode that was modified. At least POSIX is clear (it uses the
term "file" and says that symbolic links are followed).
> For what purpose would you want to change the timestamp of a symlink?
For testing. I noticed a bug in VLC that occurred on some symbolic
link and I wanted to know the cause, and in particular if this was
related to the timestamp (but now the bug no longer occurs while I
didn't change anything).
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