GNU bug report logs - #21065
Small bug in touch

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Rickard Norlander <rickardnorlander <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 21065 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 
 Rickard Norlander <rickardnorlander <at> gmail.com>, 21065 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21065: Small bug in touch
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 08:50:26 -0700

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> done on purpose since v5.90 with:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3513e1

Yes, the intent was that there be a way from the shell to touch a file even when 
one has only its file descriptor.  Although POSIX does not specify the behavior 
of 'touch -' so portable scripts can't rely on it, users of GNU 'touch' can use 
it regardless of the underlying platform.
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