[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: > POSIX requires that touch do the equivalent of calling creat() if > the file does not exist, then call utime() whether or not creat() > was called. A broken symlink exists,
Not unless the program is specifically mentioned by POSIX as one that does not follow symlinks. 'touch' is not such a program, so it follows symlinks, so it considers the file to not exist, so it issues creat() and the creat() follows the symlink to create the file. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
