Bug 16301

Summary: Linux kernel has no syscall for setting symbolic links time (atime, mtime, ctime)
Product: File System Reporter: Artem S. Tashkinov (aros)
Component: VFSAssignee: fs_vfs
Status: RESOLVED WILL_NOT_FIX    
Severity: enhancement CC: alan
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Artem S. Tashkinov 2010-06-26 20:55:00 UTC
That would be great to have it, because it allows a better safety (you can unpack tar/cpio archive with symbolic links times matching their original times).