Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!simsong From: simsong@mit-eddie.UUCP (Simson L. Garfinkel) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: [f]chmod in 4.2BSD Message-ID: <4705@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 09:55:31 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4705 Posted: Tue Jul 16 09:55:31 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:28:38 EDT References: <2043@hplabs.UUCP> Reply-To: simsong@mit-eddie.UUCP (Simson L. Garfinkel) Distribution: net Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 6 Keywords: utimes symbolic links Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:13861 net.bugs.4bsd:1609 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?