"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >
> >> John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> [Roland and I are bouncing a proposal back and forth...]
> >>>
> > [snip]
> >
> >> We still miss touch(1) in the list of 64 bit binaries
> >> in order to be able to correct the time stamps for problematic files.
...
> This is not architectural, but is the only way to fix this to use a
> 64-bit binary? Can't we fix it using uint64_t or somesuch in a 32-bit
> program? (I'm talking about the specific deficiency for
> /usr/bin/touch.) I'd like the fix to be available from a 32-bit
> environment as well as a 64-bit one, otherwise the "fix" is incomplete.
The only way to stat(2) such files is to use a 64 bit binary, so yes we
need a 64 bit touch
J?rg
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