On 2007-08-20 00:32:15 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-19 12:40:47 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > 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).
There could be other reasons: so that the output of "ls -lt" doesn't list symlinks in some arbitrary order, for instance. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
