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

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:23:45 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> 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?
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