Subject: Re: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 22:28:56 -0700

L A Walsh wrote:
> So the touch command does the same as:
>   echo -n >>'stdout-file'   ?

Not really.

> What was the use-case that touch needed to have
> the new feature?

It was mainly a desire to get back to the original Unix model, where basic 
commands like 'touch' were thin wrappers around system calls.