Subject: Re: bug#70725: 29.3; dired-do-touch completion

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 13:35:38 +0200

On Mai 06 2024, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> The timestamp will be set to a few milliseconds in the past, yes, but is
> this really a problem?

You can touch a file that you don't own, if you have write permission.
But you cannot set the time of such a file to an arbitrary value (even
if that value happens to be the current time).

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