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-rw-r--r--configure.ac5
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/local-store.cc25
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7b814dedc..a2512cfe9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/mount.h], [], [],
])
+# Check for lutimes, optionally used for changing the mtime of
+# symlinks.
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([lutimes])
+
+
# Check for <locale>.
AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([locale])
diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
index 30398a244..e009191b6 100644
--- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <utime.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ void canonicalisePathMetaData(const Path & path, bool recurse)
throw SysError(format("changing owner of `%1%' to %2%")
% path % geteuid());
}
-
+
if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
/* Mask out all type related bits. */
@@ -458,14 +459,20 @@ void canonicalisePathMetaData(const Path & path, bool recurse)
throw SysError(format("changing mode of `%1%' to %2$o") % path % mode);
}
- if (st.st_mtime != mtimeStore) {
- struct utimbuf utimbuf;
- utimbuf.actime = st.st_atime;
- utimbuf.modtime = mtimeStore;
- if (utime(path.c_str(), &utimbuf) == -1)
- throw SysError(format("changing modification time of `%1%'") % path);
- }
-
+ }
+
+ if (st.st_mtime != mtimeStore) {
+ struct timeval times[2];
+ times[0].tv_sec = st.st_atime;
+ times[0].tv_usec = 0;
+ times[1].tv_sec = mtimeStore;
+ times[1].tv_usec = 0;
+#if HAVE_LUTIMES
+ if (lutimes(path.c_str(), times) == -1)
+#else
+ if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) && utimes(path.c_str(), times) == -1)
+#endif
+ throw SysError(format("changing modification time of `%1%'") % path);
}
if (recurse && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {