From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 00:49:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA11472 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:49:08 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA11466 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:49:07 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA04183; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:49:01 -0800 Message-Id: <199503210849.AAA04183@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Steven Wallace cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:19:30 PST." <199503210719.AA11821@balboa.eng.uci.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:48:57 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Could someone please tell the ignorant why in FreeBSD 2.X >when a directory is modified all the symbolic links in that directory >have their modification date changed to that same date? >I don't remember this happening in FreeBSD 1.X > >Steven symbolic links are stored entirely in the directory entry and thus carry the same time stamp info as the directory. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================