Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 00:48:57 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links Message-ID: <199503210849.AAA04183@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:19:30 PST." <199503210719.AA11821@balboa.eng.uci.edu>
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> >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 ==============================================
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