Re: mtime of symlink not restored

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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Denis Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Le 07/07/2012 23:25, Brendan Brewster wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a beginner using dar and was just testing and playing with dar. One
> > thing came up that I was not expecting, restoring a symlink doesn't seem
> to
> > be getting it's original mtime.
>
> This is a Unix limitation, changing the mtime of a symlink lead the
> modification of the mtime of the file targeted by that symlink. So dar
> does not try to restore date of symlink (same thing with atime if I
> remember well).
>
> Ah, that does ring a bell, thank you.


> You point the fact that this information should be present in the
> "limitations" page ( http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Limitations.html ) I
> will fix that.
>
> Great!


> Regards,
> Denis.
>

Thanks for your time,
Brendan


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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Denis Corbin <s=
pan dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">=
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Le 07/07/2012 23:25, Brendan Brewster wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I&#39;m a beginner using dar and was just testing and playing with dar=
. One<br>
&gt; thing came up that I was not expecting, restoring a symlink doesn&#39;=
t seem to<br>
&gt; be getting it&#39;s original mtime.<br>
<br>
</div>This is a Unix limitation, changing the mtime of a symlink lead the<b=
r>
modification of the mtime of the file targeted by that symlink. So dar<br>
does not try to restore date of symlink (same thing with atime if I<br>
remember well).<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Ah, that does ring a bell, thank you.</div><div>=A0</=
div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-lef=
t:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You point the fact that this information should be present in the<br>
&quot;limitations&quot; page ( <a href=3D"http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Limi=
tations.html" target=3D"_blank">http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Limitations.ht=
ml</a> ) I<br>
will fix that.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Great!</div><div>=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_=
quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1=
ex">
Regards,<br>
Denis.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your time,</div><div>=
Brendan</div><div>=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margi=
n:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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