Sadly, we can't change symlink mtimes

chadrik · May 20, 2007 · 885833e · 885833e
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commit 885833e
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/metastore.c b/metastore.c
@@ -157,10 +157,12 @@ compare_fix(struct metaentry *real, struct metaentry *stored, int cmp)
 			msg(MSG_DEBUG, "\tchmod failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 	}
 
-	if (cmp & DIFF_MTIME) {
+	/* FIXME: Use utimensat here, or even better - lutimensat */
+	if ((cmp & DIFF_MTIME) && S_ISLNK(real->mode)) {
+		msg(MSG_NORMAL, "%s:\tsymlink, not changing mtime", real-path);
+	} else if (cmp & DIFF_MTIME) {
 		msg(MSG_NORMAL, "%s:\tchanging mtime from %ld to %ld\n",
 		    real->path, real->mtime, stored->mtime);
-		/* FIXME: Use utimensat here */
 		tbuf.actime = stored->mtime;
 		tbuf.modtime = stored->mtime;
 		if (utime(real->path, &tbuf)) {