Re: [PATCH 3/3] lutimesat: actual syscall and wire-up on i386

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Mon Jan 29 2007 - 10:56:19 EST


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:07:04AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > What do you mean by "filesystems cannot support lutimes"? Filesystems
> > that don't have on-disk timestamps for symlinks?
>
> Yes.

Checked to be sure, on ext2, ext3, reiserfs, XFS symlink timestamps
stick across mounts/umounts.

Also, looking at disk inode structures of UFS, SysV, JFFS2, GFS2, EFS, I
think they should handle lutimesat(2) just fine.

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