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Re: [MiNT] touching symbolic links



Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> writes:
>
>> That means MiNT does not touch the link-target. Who is right?
>
> MiNT is correct.  touch is not supposed to follow symbolic links.

Actually, it's the other way round.  touch is defined in terms of
utimensat(,,,0), which does follow symbolic links.

Andreas.

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