[f]chmod in 4.2BSD

Simson L. Garfinkel simsong at mit-eddie.UUCP
Tue Jul 16 23:55:31 AEST 1985


It appears that the utimes(2) call chases symbolic links rather than
modifying the time of the link itself. In the man page, one of the
errors returnable is "[ELOOP]" -- "Too many symbolic links were
encountered in translating the pathname."

So how do you change the times of a symbolic link?



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