Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030789AbXAZUjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:39:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030793AbXAZUjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:39:15 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:53939 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030789AbXAZUjO (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:39:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:39:03 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: devel@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386 Message-Id: <20070126123903.046aaa5e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20070126112345.GC11128@localhost.sw.ru> References: <20070126112345.GC11128@localhost.sw.ru> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 24 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:23:45 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/