Re: utime for symbolic links

[Fletch]

My guess is that touch -h is using the lutimes(3) system call (where available) which a quick ripgrep through the perl source doesn't show any reference to. You theoretically could wrap it directly yourself with Inline::C but I don't think you're otherwise going to have luck directly from perl.

Edit: derp, wrong man section fixed

[haukex]

My guess is that touch -h is using the lutimes(3) system call

No (at least not in GNU coreutils), but that's an excellent hint nonetheless - a search on CPAN reveals File::lchown that does support lutimes!