SUMMARY: symbolic link and touch

[Adam Bisbe <bblp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark, you are right:

> It's been noticeable that over the last few months, while people are
> asking as many questions as ever, relatively few are bothering to post 
> a
> summary of answers received.

But the summary is that I have not solved my problem, I got answers 
from 4 people, with good explanations about the differences between 
hard link and simbolic link, but all agreed that it is impossible to 
change the date on a simbolic link.

Original question
> symbolic link and touch
> I had to restore a filesystem on a new hard disc with lots of symbolic 
> links (ln -s), those files took the date from the day I restore them, 
> not from the day they where created on the old disc.
> touching them with 'touch -t xxxxxxxxx' will not change their date. Is 
> it impossible to keep or change the date of a symbolic link?
> The behaviour I would expect would be to take the date of the 
> destination file (am I wrong?).


I posted another question a month ago and I got very few answers and I 
did not solve my problem, so I did not issue a Summary.

Adam
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