Re: sys_utime bug in 131?

Tom Eastep (eastep@eastep-1.mis.tandem.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:31:34 -0800

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Richard Fish wrote:
>
>The above shows that calling utime() on a symbolic link results in the
>times being set for the actual file, not the link.
>
>Here is a patch to "fix" it. Let me know if this seems reasonable.
>

Reasonableness aside, it is certainly non-POSIX.

-Tom

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Tom Eastep
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