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Title: os.utime() that works on symlinks?
Type: enhancement Stage:
Components: None Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: rejected
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Assigned To: Nosy List: jackjansen, landley, loewis
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2002-10-15 21:47 by landley, last changed 2022-04-10 16:05 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg53664 - (view) Author: Rob Landley (landley) Date: 2002-10-15 21:47 
I can query a symlink's timestamps with os.lstat(), but can't 
set them.  Any attempt to set the timestamps on a symlink is 
transparently redirected to the file it points to (which in this 
case is on a read-only partition, as is not what I want to do 
anyway).

Maybe os.lutime()?
msg53665 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2002-10-15 22:10 
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Is there a way to do this from a C program? os.utime() is simply a wrapper around the C library call of the same name, and I'm not aware of a lutime() on systems I'm familiar with...
msg53666 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * (Python committer) Date: 2002-11-04 10:17 
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It's not possible to implement this feature: the operating
system provides no mechanism to modify the timestamp of a
symlink. The closest you can get is to remove and recreate
the symlink, but that uses the current time, not the one you
would give to utime.
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2022-04-10 16:05:45adminsetgithub: 37328
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