Issue #7106 has been updated by kwilczynski (Krzysztof Wilczynski). File 0001-Add-support-for-lutimes.patch added Hey, I am adding one large patch, as per Aaron Patterson's request :-) KW ---------------------------------------- Feature #7106: FileUtils.touch should allow touching the symlink itself rather than the file the link points to https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7106#change-31452 Author: cirrusthinking (Alessandro Diaferia) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: 1.9.3 Most systems support POSIX lutimes sys call that allows a symlink to be touched. I'd like to see this feature implemented. Unfortunately I'd like to see this feature on Solaris as soon as possible but I cannot see lutimes syscall supported there. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/