On 3/8/21 5:50 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Data loss shown in original bug submission. As mentioned/documented
it was use of:
'touch -f <from filename> <destination filename>'
Sure, but what was the context of that command? Was it part of a shell
script? What was the script for? Can we see a copy? That sort of thing.
I don't know which version of touch I remember it from as I've
use a few versions of unix, as in (scratching memory):
some form of SCO Unix on Intel chips (early 80's, pre IBM-PC), HPUX, Sun
Unix(a BSD variant), SunOS (a SysV variant), IRIX(sgi),
among others whose names I don't remember.
It'd be helpful to nail that down.
On FreeBSD, touch's -f option is also a no-op, and I observe similar
behavior on Solaris 10 (where I lack the source code). So there are good
compatibility arguments for leaving things the way they are.
