8220793: (fs) No support for changing modification time of symlink

[Brian Burkhalter]

> On May 1, 2019, at 11:11 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 25/04/2019 00:11, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>> 
>> I added lutimes() to the retry section (lines 140-141) [1, 2].
> That part is fine but I'm still concerned that the code doesn't know if there is lutimes support or not. If there is lutimes support then we'd skip the openFileAttributeAccess when !followLinks and the file is a sym link. I guess I was expecting a new capabilities bit to be added so that UnixNativeDispacher.init returns the bit set when the platform supports the feature.

I see. I can look into adding that.

Thanks,

Brian
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