From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: devel@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:39:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070126123903.046aaa5e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070126112345.GC11128@localhost.sw.ru>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-26 11:23 [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 Alexey Dobriyan
2007-01-26 20:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-01-26 20:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-01-29 11:05 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-01-29 15:07 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-01-29 16:02 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-01-28 7:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-29 9:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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