-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 10/17/2009 10:24 AM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> As promised, I've now implemented touch -h. I've tested it on machines >> with and without utimensat/lutimes. OK to apply? > > I presume -h is used to match some other system?
Yep, BSD has had it for quite some time: http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/touch.1.html In fact, it was mentioned in thread 3 years ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-04/msg00171.html Besides, it is consistent with many other tools that use -h to mean operation on symlinks proper (even though POSIX 2008 forgot to add 'touch - -h'), including these from POSIX: chown, chgrp, file [I still have 'chown -h' on my todo list...] > Also I noticed a mispelling of dereferne Fixed and pushed. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkraLtIACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDAlgCfUa+gO0tO0b4aU/uX3JQH77qL ooAAn02wkSHUOPiOkBv9A2muAWJ2sow6 =LPy6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
