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I've been trying to use lutimes and utimensat(,AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) to
play with symlink timestamps.  mtime can be modified just fine, but atime
changes are lost the moment you lstat() the symlink again (probably
because path.cc opens the symlink file during path resolution to read its
contents and confirm it is a symlink).  POSIX states that readlink()
changes the atime of a symlink, but not lstat().  Is there a way to make
path.cc resolution behave as if O_NOATIME were in effect for symlink
resolution, so that lstat() and path resolution leaves symlink times
alone, and only an explicit readlink() or lutimes() will adjust atime on
symlinks?

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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