On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:45:20PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > OK, but I don't recall having seeing a demand for lutimes(). Opinions > > are sought? > > It's an interface which has been available on other platforms forever > (lutimes, not lutimesat). If it can be implemented correctly on the > interesting file systems I'd say "go ahead", it can only be useful and > have more benefits than the probably small cost of implementing it. > > If on the other hand important filesystems cannot support lutimes then > I'd wait with introducing the syscall at least until the support is > added.
What do you mean by "filesystems cannot support lutimes"? Filesystems that don't have on-disk timestamps for symlinks? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
