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

[Jan Schlößin]

Hi,

it's a bit off topic. But do you guys have in mind, that windows
supports symlinks, too? Since "Windows 10 build 14972" you can create
them without being admin.

  https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/

Thanks,
Jan

Brian Burkhalter schrieb:
> 
>> On May 2, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
>> <mailto:Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Yes but no need to check os.name. You'll see examples in other tests.
> 
> I was wondering about that. Changed:
> 
> --- a/test/jdk/java/nio/file/Files/SymlinkTime.java
> +++ b/test/jdk/java/nio/file/Files/SymlinkTime.java
> @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@
>  public class SymlinkTime {
>      public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
>          Path dir = TestUtil.createTemporaryDirectory();
> +        if (!TestUtil.supportsLinks(dir)) {
> +            System.out.println("Links not supported: skipping test");
> +            return;
> +        }
> +
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian