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From: simsong@mit-eddie.UUCP (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: [f]chmod in 4.2BSD
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 09:55:31 EDT
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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?