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From: simsong@mit-eddie.UUCP (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: using utimes(2) to change the time of a link
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 11:09:32 EDT
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In article <266@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>Why are there so many inquiries about doing things to the symbolic
>links instead of to the files to which they point?  It doesn't seem
>to be necessary..


Because I am writing a parallel file system that uses write once compact
disks. I would like it if, when a symbolic link is restored with some
sort of "preserve original times" option is specified, the links get
restored with the same time as when they were created.

If anybody would like info on the Compact Disk File System (by the way:
It's opperating system independent!) I would be happy to post an article
about it.

				Simson L. Garfinkel
				Art and Media Technology Labortory
				MIT

					simsong@athena.mit.edu
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