Bug 16301 - Linux kernel has no syscall for setting symbolic links time (atime, mtime, ctime)
Summary: Linux kernel has no syscall for setting symbolic links time (atime, mtime, ct...
Status: RESOLVED WILL_NOT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: File System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: VFS (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 enhancement
Assignee: fs_vfs
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Reported: 2010-06-26 20:55 UTC by Artem S. Tashkinov
Modified: 2012-08-09 14:14 UTC (History)
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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).
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