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Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 [message #9875 is a reply to message #9859] Fri, 26 January 2007 20:39 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Andrew Morton is currently offline  Andrew Morton
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:23:45 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> wrote:

> lutimesat(2) does everything futimesat(2) does except it doesn't follow
> symlinks.
>
> It could be used by tar(1) and cp(1).
>
> FreeBSD and NetBSD have lutimes(2) which can be emulated by C library:
>
> lutimesat(AT_FDCWD, filename, utimes)
>
> Closes http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4433
>
efine __ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
> #define __ARCH_WANT_OLD_READDIR

OK, but I don't recall having seeing a demand for lutimes(). Opinions
are sought?
 
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