[PATCH] Ignore touch -f flag
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 28 11:18:51 PST 2007
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 06:55, Tobias Poschwatta wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:37:12PM +0100, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > touch -f is not part of SUSv3, so should depend on some TOUCH_GNU_COMPAT
> > toggle, imho.
>
> -f has a meaning on BSD:
> Attempt to force the update, even if the file permissions do not
> currently permit it.
> (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=touch§ion=ANY)
>
> GNU coreutils ignore -f, too. Wouldn't this make it TOUCH_BSD_COMPAT?
Come on guys, it's 5 bytes or so. No need to have an option for that.
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