Thank you for the clarification. On Aug 4, 2017 4:58 PM, "Eric Blake" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/04/2017 04:09 AM, pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote: > > Thanks, > > [top-posting is harder to read on technical lists] > > > Can I know why does it work in linux flavours like Red Hat Linux,Kali > Linux > > but not ubuntu flavours??? > > Perhaps you should compare 'touch --version' on the systems with > differing behaviors. If the versions are different, it could be that > you are using an older version on the one where it doesn't work (reading > NEWS can confirm when the feature was changed; in the case of 'touch -', > the behavior was changed for 5.90 back in 2005). If the versions claim > to be the same (or newer than the point where NEWS documents that the > change), then your vendor has applied a downstream patch, and you should > ask your vendor to help you find their downstream patches and why they > want the changed behavior from upstream. > > -- > Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 > Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org > >
