GNU bug report logs - #27942
Bug regarding "touch" command

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: pavan kumar yalavarthi <yalavarthi.pavankumar.123 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 06:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: pavan kumar yalavarthi <yalavarthi.pavankumar.123 <at> gmail.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 27942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, coreutils <at> tlinx.org
Subject: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 06:28:09 -0500

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On 08/04/2017 04:09 AM, pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
> Thanks,

[top-posting is harder to read on technical lists]

> Can I know why does it work in linux flavours like Red Hat Linux,Kali Linux
> but not ubuntu flavours???

Perhaps you should compare 'touch --version' on the systems with
differing behaviors.  If the versions are different, it could be that
you are using an older version on the one where it doesn't work (reading
NEWS can confirm when the feature was changed; in the case of 'touch -',
the behavior was changed for 5.90 back in 2005).  If the versions claim
to be the same (or newer than the point where NEWS documents that the
change), then your vendor has applied a downstream patch, and you should
ask your vendor to help you find their downstream patches and why they
want the changed behavior from upstream.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
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