Pádraig Brady wrote:
done on purpose since v5.90 with: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3513e1
Yes, the intent was that there be a way from the shell to touch a file even when one has only its file descriptor. Although POSIX does not specify the behavior of 'touch -' so portable scripts can't rely on it, users of GNU 'touch' can use it regardless of the underlying platform.
