Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386

Andrew Morton
2007-01-26T20:39:15Z

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?