-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 9/25/2005 12:21 AM: > > To help counteract this for futimes, we can have "touch -" touch the > standard output, i.e., it can invoke futimes on the standard output > rather than utimes on the file named "-". This is pretty > straightforward so I installed the following patch.
Does this countradict POSIX, meaning that when POSIXLY_CORRECT, 'touch -' should be the same as 'touch ./-'? I couldn't see anything in POSIX that permits or forbids this change in semantics, although I agree that it seems useful. Also, it seems a bit strange that - maps to stdout, when it usually maps to stdin. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDN+9684KuGfSFAYARAu2/AJ4tJallLselI81vWjx0jHQOfzHZsgCdHGX4 bmph540bev1zv4umlGgYXAU= =QbTR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
