From: Abramo Bagnara <abramo.bagnara@libero.it>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: futimes()?
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:48:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E3CDB58.A697BFEF@libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b1htmi$9r6$1@cesium.transmeta.com
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> In the general vein of avoiding security holes by using file
> descriptors when doing repeated operations on the same filesystem
> object, I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be a way to set
> mtime using a file descriptor. Do we need a futimes() syscall?
Parallel to that, there is the long time needed lutimes() syscall.
Who has never been annoyed that restoring a backup there's no way to
restore former symlink mtime?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-02 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-02 1:53 futimes()? H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-02 8:48 ` Abramo Bagnara [this message]
2003-02-02 12:07 ` futimes()? Alex Riesen
2003-02-03 19:07 ` futimes()? H. Peter Anvin
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2003-02-02 18:59 futimes()? Adam J. Richter
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