GNU bug report logs - #7122
touch (GNU coreutils) 7.4 - no way to touch a symlink

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Peter Bailey <baileyp <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Peter Bailey <baileyp <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: touch (GNU coreutils) 7.4 - no way to touch a symlink
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:51:23 -0700

There are reports that the BSD version of touch has a -h option which
will make it update the timestamp of a symlink rather than the target
of that symlink.  As it is, there's no way to update the timestamp on
a symlink itself.
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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Peter Bailey <baileyp <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7122: touch (GNU coreutils) 7.4 - no way to touch a symlink
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:12:50 -0600

On 09/28/2010 03:51 AM, Peter Bailey wrote:
> There are reports that the BSD version of touch has a -h option which
> will make it update the timestamp of a symlink rather than the target
> of that symlink.  As it is, there's no way to update the timestamp on
> a symlink itself.

Consider upgrading.  'touch -h' support was added in coreutils 8.1; the 
latest stable version is 8.5.

Meanwhile, 'touch -h' requires a new enough kernel (one that has full 
utimensat support).

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Peter Bailey <baileyp <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7122-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7122: touch (GNU coreutils) 7.4 - no way to touch a symlink
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:23:30 +0100

On 28/09/10 10:51, Peter Bailey wrote:
> There are reports that the BSD version of touch has a -h option which
> will make it update the timestamp of a symlink rather than the target
> of that symlink.  As it is, there's no way to update the timestamp on
> a symlink itself.

Done in V8.1
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=9e13b6a0

cheers,
Pádraig.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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