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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 8 |
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f4be2c2f0..33877afc6 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7445,12 +7445,10 @@ may preserve the group ownership of a file only if they happen to be a member of the desired group. @itemx timestamps Preserve the times of last access and last modification, when possible. -In general, it is not possible to preserve these attributes +On older systems, it is not possible to preserve these attributes when the affected file is a symbolic link. -However, FreeBSD now provides the @code{lutimes} function, which makes -it possible even for symbolic links. However, this implementation does -not yet take advantage of that. -@c FIXME: once we provide lutimes support, update the above. +However, many systems now provide the @code{utimensat} function, +which makes it possible even for symbolic links. @itemx links Preserve in the destination files any links between corresponding source files. |